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BuzzWorthy Radio: Elvera Roussel!

Elvera Roussel, formerly Hope Bauer Spaulding from CBS Daytime's Guiding Light, will be making her first out of two appearances on BuzzWorthy Radio!

Roussel will be joining us to talk about her time on the show during the golden years, and also what she has been up to since she left the show in 1984. Her 2nd appearance, Roussel will be posing as guest co-host for our GL tribute show, to air on BWR August 18, 2009 at 1 PM EST!

Guests who are slated to attend are Krista Tesreau (Mindy Lewis), Denise Pence (ex-Katie Parker 1977-1985), and Judi Evans (ex-Beth Raines 1983-1986). We also will be featuring a GL commentary from Mimi Torchin as well, with more guests to be added to the roster. Stay tuned for more information.

Duration:: 59m
Broadcast on:: 10 Aug 2009
Audio Format:: other

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As you can tell, I've not been a little bit sober, if I could put that out there. But I'm sober enough to do so, but even though I messed up on her last name, that's fine. I wanted to say, because I got side checked, because I wanted to say also, because I did not know that this was planned in accordance to his birthday. But one of your fans, and he watched a guy in the Golden Era that it was, is listening to the show right now. His name is Matt, and his birthday is today. He turns 38 today, and I would appreciate it if you wish him a wonderful, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Matt, happy birthday to you. It's great. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. So, let me start over and correct it, Elvira Russelle is joining us on the line right now, and let's describe for everybody who does not know, and for those of you who do remember, the character that you played on The Guiding Light, let's talk about that, let's describe, let's describe Hope Bower's spalding, shall we? Well, Hope Bower's spalding, she was basically Hope Bower, she's the daughter of Michael Bower, who was the son of Charita Bower, who played by Charita Bower, and she was the matriarch, she was the original person on the show, brought it from radio to television, and I had the great pleasure of the first day of my appearance on The Guiding Light, having my first being with her, which was delightful, and a wonderful welcome to the show for me, and so Hope was like her granddaughter, and then Hope had the child, Alan Michael, spalding with Alan's spalding, so that would be the fourth generation down from Burt Bower, and so it was the main family of The Guiding Light for many years with the Bower family, and a wonderful wonderful wonderful woman, Trita Bower, if I can tribute her, just simply the most wonderful woman, warm welcoming, the great leader of the cast, great comradery, great sense of professionalism, respect, which is simply the goal of the age of television being on The Guiding Light with her, she was just simply outstanding, so yes, that was, and so Hope grew up and became an interior decorator, and when she was a young interior decorator, she was hired by her father's Memphis enemy, Alan spalding, the bad guy in town, to decorate a house on an island that he was going to decorate for his then wife, and they got into plane crash, and they were stuck on the island, and while they were on the island for a few weeks, they fell in love, and then when they rescued and brought back, he got a divorce, and then they got married, and then it's the mystery. The rest is history, I mean, I wasn't born at that time, but everybody who referred back to one of their favorite storylines was the plane crash storyline, and I got to see an episode of that actually, someone actually showed it to me on YouTube, and I was able to actually watch that storyline, and I thought that was absolutely lovely, first, you know, I never saw Christopher know as Alan until those scenes, of course, and very, very sexy had the man, very powerful, very, you know, really, really, really. He did seem powerful, yeah, he was like the powerful Alan spalding, I mean, you can't deny that, and you had absolutely wonderful chemistry with him on the show, what was it like working with him, and doing all those location shoots, where did you go, what was it like, what was the response audience? Well, working first of all, working with Christopher Bernard was fantastic, because this is a man who was highly trained, who had done a great deal of theatre, who brought the great sense of professionalism to the set, and I, since I was theatre trained also, and Hofstra University, and I had respect for that, so we had a mutual respect from day one, which is, I think, very, very important in forming a basis for a working relationship, and we traveled well together, we were both, you know, very good, going to bed early, knowing our lives in the morning, swimming in the ocean, doing all the things required, so they took us on many locations, and the story dictated as well as that, you know, they, since they knew we behaved ourselves, and we weren't, and we did it all very rapidly, I think that encouraged them to write more locations, which the audience just loved, I mean, we were in Tanya Riffy, in the Canary Islands, we were in Jamaica, we were in St. Lucia, we were in the New Hampshire, I mean, it's really amazing variety of places, working with him was delightful, he was absolutely every woman's dream, I mean, I would, most of the time when people would recognize me, they would say, and how is Alan, you know, it's all about him, you know, which is great, you know, and so it's just a very, very, very wonderful relationship, and I'm very sad that he's no longer with us, he was a fine man. That's great, he will be missed, I will have to say that. Always missed, yes, yes. And we got, we got lots of people, we got people in the chat room right now, this one is from Don, she wanted to know, do you keep in touch with anyone from the cast? Hi Don, yes I do, I keep in touch with a lot of people from the cast, as a matter of fact, I'm going to be going to see Krista, I just saw Denise Pence and Krista Tezro last week, we just had a lovely dinner at St. Simon on the Green, and I'm going to see her in the Los Angeles, Krista next month in Los Angeles, and then Marcia Clark and Lenore Castro from so many people I keep up with, some people have lost touch with me, but that's because of where my life went, not because I don't care about them, it's just because my life had to leave the business for a while, but yes, wonderful, wonderful people. Great, great, absolutely. I'm looking forward to also, and I just wanted to put this out there, I'm looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks and everybody else, and just, you know, go over some favorite moments of a guy named like, what were some of yours? The by the plane crash and let it those scenes and everything, did you have any other favorite moments on the show? I think the wedding was fun because it was a real old-fashioned at-home wedding, it wasn't the glamorous wedding that they do nowadays, but it was a wedding that meant somebody because it was held in the grandmother's house, and it was coming down the stairs, the back stairs, the family being there, the grandparents, the family, and it was small, and I think that that really went over well with the audience, because after falling in love on the island and the scandal of the divorce and all that had this personal wedding, I think cemented the relationship for Hope and Allen, and I think it's kind of funny and humorous in a way that when Hope had Alan Michael, she's the only person that any doctor has ever heard of that had an appendectomy in his direct to me at the same time, so I fell off the ladder and all that stuff, so I think that was kind of funny. Look at what came through there. That's so funny. And Matt actually had posted a question. We actually talked about this a few weeks ago. He wanted to know if there was any chance of you making a brief return to guiding light as Hope before the finale, and I was devastated to find out that you weren't asked. Yeah, no, nobody calls, but that's all right, I mean they've gone their own direction with the show. I mean, you know, if they wanted me, I think actually, frankly, I think it would have been hilarious, had almost the last day if the door had opened, and Hope was there, and she said, "Hello, Elle, and I'm home," because I've opened up a whole, you know, the whole audience would have been, I mean, the audience that remembers would have laughed at that. That would have been funny. It would have been, yeah. But that's life, you know, they've gone there. I'm curious to see how the show's done, and I do watch it some time to time, you know, while running and working and doing other projects. But when I can, I do watch it, and I think that they're just wonderful actors, and everybody involved with the show is terrific, and I wish everybody luck in the future. You know, it's a great talent out there. So, I'm sure they'll all find wonderful new paths. Absolutely. And let's continue with that. Let's segue away from that question to this one, because it was a good point for him to ask that, because a lot of people, and I didn't know this until maybe about a few weeks ago, a lot of people were wanting the character of Hope to come back. Well, a few years ago, it was revealed that Alan had another son, and that was Gus Eichor who was played by Ricky Paul Golden, and a lot of people, a lot of people wanted the character of Hope to be his mother, but it turned out to be someone else. Would you like to come back in that kind of capacity, if it were? You know, I think, I think because I have such fond memories of guiding light, and I had such a wonderful working experience there, it's asked that probably would have gone back, but the situation didn't rise. So, it's sort of a mute point. I think that they're just wonderful actors there that I would have liked to have the opportunity to work with, that I hadn't worked with on dining light when I was there, people that came on after, plus the people, you know, Michael O'Leary, wonderful, you know, wonderful actors that were there when I was there. So, it would have been a great working experience for me. But, you know, what is what is. I have some other things happening possibly in the future that might be interesting, and you can't talk about them yet, but I mean, you know, maybe something will be fun in the future. So, it would be nice. Well, see, exactly. Now, as you had, you had just said, you watched, you watched it from time to time. How do you, if you watched it enough to garner an opinion about how this new format looks on the show, would you like? You mean being out in New Jersey and stuff shooting out there out of the studio? I think it's a hard format. I think it's challenging. There's a lot of, I mean, they made the best creative, at least that they could, of the situation, because there's a lot of noise, and to bring it back to me in a funny way. I mean, I'm currently making a documentary. So, noise is always my big problem, sounds, sounds always my big problems, but I'm very attuned to that when I'm watching things. And they did very well, but you did always have the noise of the traffic, the noise of whatever in the background, and sometimes that does, you know, affect the concentration. But I think they did valiantly considering all that, and they still put storylines through and brought you along with the characters, and did everything they could under the circumstances. I don't see why the show can't continue in some way. I mean, hopefully it will one day, but it's just a great show. It is, and you know, it's been on for 72 years, counting the radio years, and I feel, and this is my opinion, I don't know if anybody else shares that opinion with me, that I think that when people think of daytime soap operas, the first thing they think of is the guiding light, because it's been around for so long, and people associate with that show, and for it not to be here after September 18th, it's gonna hurt. I mean, it's really now starting to affect me that it's not going to be here. You know, it's funny about it, when you think about it, it's older than we are. It is older than me. It's been on the air before we were born, and now it's going off the air. So, that's a really, that's historic. I mean, the majority of the people watching that show were not born when it began. So, I mean, you know, when you put in the perspective of that, that's something that was actually always around whether you watched or not, it's just sort of, you know, you're struck thinking about that, it's interesting, I think. Yes, and then that also brings mind, because you said you would like to see it continue in some way, because it had to continue. Look at what's going on with all my children and when I've lived. They are moving, you know, all my children are moving to the West Coast, while one life is moving into the old all my children's studios. And when people heard that, and myself ensued, it didn't really register. I mean, it had to take maybe like a few days to sink in, but once I thought about the move and what it could possibly be done for in a very, very positive way, they were making waves in order to save all my children. I mean, why couldn't God, it might make the same kind of effort. You know, I mean, this is me talking about that. Well, we don't. But also, we're not privy to the information about why they're moving it. I mean, I'd read things that it was financial considerations and all that. But you have to move a cast of 30 plus contract players out to a evangelist unless they choose not to go. So then that will immediately change the dynamics of the show if you lose half the cast. So I'm just, I'm not sure what they're planning. I mean, I'm not, I can't read their minds. It's interesting. I don't know. I don't know if the move was because they might want to be using exterior locations all year round. I mean, that's not a show that I feel was a location show. It was mostly studio shows. So I'm not sure what they're doing. I mean, obviously, the minds, you know, the big shots are figuring it out, you know, as they go along. Hopefully, it's all for the best for everybody. I mean, these are great shows. These are great companies of actor. These are really trans people. And also, a lot of these actors also do Broadway. So that will interfere with them doing the Broadway play, which would be a lost to our American theater, which I'm very much a fan of, as you know, because I've been involved with some Broadway productions recently in recent years. I was one of the people privileged to be an associate producer presenting Sarah Jones, unique talent on Broadway and her showbridge in Town Hall, which she was honored with a Tony Award. And then I was our lead producer, Michael Olson, was supposed to be produced with his company on bringing great gardens to Broadway, which brought our two lovely stars there, Tony Awards as well. So I mean, I just do try to support great American theater and talent on the big on American talent that should be brought to the Wisconsin. So I'm hoping that these people will get more of work and recognition in the future. That's just great. But I mean, so the cast that moves to California that does like to do theater or contribute to the theater, hopefully, will take part in the theatrical possibilities in Los Angeles as well. They have great, great theater there. I just recently saw the great actor John Mahoney in a play at the Giffett Playhouse. In May, he's just phenomenal. His cast was fantastic. I mean, just there's a lot of good theater going on everywhere. Absolutely, absolutely. And comments were swirling in the chatroom about that. Donna said that she feels that guy might go into the wrong direction. And they possibly, they could have had a story where Phillip could have ran into the character of Hope in Mexico and provided in her instead of Lillian. I'm like, some fans can come up with better stuff than the rest of us. That's just funny. I mean, any of us can come up with it. I just think that always amused me as every time they had a board meeting, nobody mentioned the stocks that hope my hope probably had a settlement from Allen in the divorce. I mean, didn't she have any shares? You know, that's a good point. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't watching totally, but I never heard the mention. I think that's hope having any influence in the decisions or even Allen Michael having her share. But maybe I'm wrong. I mean, it's just, you know, the show has to go with a head writer's brand. Yeah, you know, the writers, the writers on a soap opera, most television is writer, the writer, I mean, the writers are everything and everything. But I mean, a soap opera is definitely the head writer's direct to you where they want you to go. And then the networks put their input into it. Yeah, you just mentioned the writers and we we've gotten to a wonderful conversation about the dobsons. Here you go. I want to I want to know a little bit more about them a little bit like working under their helm on the show. Well, the wonderful thing about the dobsons is I think that they they are great writers and great storytellers and have a definite direction where they're going to take you. And but also they start to watch. I guess you start to realize after a while that you watch them write to your strengths as well or stretch you in ways that they think you should go. I had that with them. I mean, you know, they don't just they they they they give you dramatic possibilities, I think, that are very important for the audience to see the actors, the characters stretched in different ways. And I think the dobsons were very good at that. I really like their they're writing a lot and it's been well I wish we could speak to them soon because I understand they're retired, but I'd like to speak to them and be in touch with them. They're wonderful people. Yeah, I love the dobsons love the dobsons. And also another question is do you have any special Don Stewart memories you played Mike Fowler in the show? Don was funny. Don Don was done with a great musical talent. Don would travel the country every weekend really doing performances all over America and he flew his own little plane. And this is sad in light of what happened yesterday, but he had a private plane. And when we went up to New Hampshire on location, we were busted up the whole cast and crew. But the way they had scheduled production back in New York, Christopher Berno and I needed to be back to the day after we finished shooting in New Hampshire. And there's no way we could have gotten back on the bus and been in the studio on time. So Don flew his plane up there because he was taking part in the location. And he flew Christopher Berno and myself back to the city and got permission to fly over Manhattan at that time you could. And we were playing, he was playing the music from Cherry to Fire. That beautiful music where they're running on the beach and we were flying over Manhattan. This beautiful city all lit up and delivering. And it was just, it was just one of those magical things. And we were all, we all, we all, when we landed, we all looked at each other but that was magnificent. That was just awe-inspiring seeing our great city and that we all loved so much. And with so many wonderful people from all over the world that lived there and all lit up in the sky and hearing that beautiful music. And it was just, I've had some great little memories with him. I wish, you know, it's very sad that he's gone now too. Yeah, I agree. This is very talented man. Very talented. Now who else on Gunning Light would you have had, would you want the privilege to work with? I mean, I know you just mentioned Michael O'Leary a few moments ago. Who else would you have loved to have worked with? Pretty much every one of them. Every one of them. Yeah, they're all interesting actors. Everybody, that's the joy of being an artist is that in every, in every performance with every person you work with, you find different things and different elements and different things to play. So it's always very exciting. I mean, I, I, Jerry Verdorn has now left me on One Life to Live. And I, as you're Jerry and we were great friends, but we didn't get to act that much on the show but we did for many years travel all over the country during publicity together. We were great friends and traveled well and last, you know, enjoyed the same thing. And I would very much love to have had an opportunity to have a major storyline with Jerry, you know, not just peripheral ones. And he's somebody I would like to really access one day again. He's just wonderful. Very calm, very good actor. Very good actor. I think that would have been, I think that would have been interesting for a little Hope Ross storyline on the show because of Alan and now he felt towards Ross, that would have been, that would have been very, very good to play. It's a shame. It is a shame that he can't also come back for like the, the end of the, end of the series. Well, what do we know? Do we know what's happened? I mean, did they tape and secrecy? Do we, are we revealing things that are true or not true to the audience? We have to do it when you find out, right? I know, right. I mean, it was about, it was about, with an outfit, Jeanie Cooper and Christian LeBlanc and the young wrestlers will be on the final episode of "Guiding Light." Do we want to be on the final list, though? Jeanie Cooper, who plays Captain Chancellor on the younger wrestlers, and Christian LeBlanc, who plays Michael Baldwin on the same show, are going to be on the final episode of "Guiding Light," they're going to make a nice little cameo appearance. I'm like, wow. That's fantastic. Well, I have to tell you a wonderful story about Jeanie Cooper. But I was first spent on the road when I was a young little pup on "Guiding Light," my first year. One of the first places I was was at some of her parents, and she was there, too. And she was so inviting and loving and took me under her wing and was teaching me all sorts of different things. And we had nice long talks about the, the responsibilities of daytime, you know, it's a different, it's a different animal from theater or just a different show. You know, I did the 30th bunch, you were in, you're out. You know, but when you're long-term contract, you have certain responsibilities to promote the show and make a lot of people want to tune in the next week, right? So she was just really wonderful and warm. And gosh, I would like to see her again. Maybe look her up when we're in California, right? That's right. I would love it. I would love it. So what have you, what have you been doing since you've left, since you left the show? What has, what has gone on in the life of El Vera? Well, lots of things, lots of different directions. When I first left the show, I moved back to California because I had wanted to study directing. During my years, I'm guiding why I'd gotten more and more interested in that. And I was very luckily accepted by the great James Burroughs to observe on the program, Cheers, and a few pilots, including Frazier and the Merred and the familiar boys and all that. And to learn at the, you know, you sit there, you learn, you think you do your camera blocking. You see how they do the camera blocking and check it against what new it has chosen. It gives you a lot of time to think and to see how they rewrite and how they work with the writers and the actors and directing. So it's just simply the perb situation. And just about the time I was about to go out and start trying to put myself up for directing jobs in the fifth time world, I had a, I had an accident where I got a very bad back injury. So I had to come back to New York and have a pretty major surgery. And while I was recovering, my parents all started to get sick, my mother's father and stepfather. So I, like so many others, and like every person, had to abandon career and be with them and care for them for many years. And then sadly, when they all passed away, I'm starting over again. And now I'm currently making a big documentary big. It's taking me forever documentary from the New York Foundation for the Arts sponsored me. It's, I've been filming for five years and I'm leaving in the morning to film again and I'll be in my family for two weeks. And also producing the Broadway, helping to the theater. And I'm currently now starting to talk to people back going back to acting, which was really terrific. So that would be terrific. That would be, yeah. I would like to do that again. Love to be back on screen. And are you able to give anybody anything from details of exactly what you are filming? Or you want to keep that under wraps a little bit? It's a very important historic project. It's about a group of American children that were in a country that was under a lot of duress at the time. And I think I'll talk about it in the future right now. I'm not going to play that. But anybody who wants to contribute to the New York Foundation for the Arts for the Alburo resale project may get 100% deduction. It's an excellent deduction. So, yeah. Now it's just, I'll talk about it in the future, but it's something that's very important in my life to do. So, it's good. All right. So everybody just keep tabs on that, huh? That's right. Now you travel all over America doing a lot of publicity. How was that when doing that? How did that bring you closer to the audience of the watch to you on the show? One of the great things that I got to do was to travel around America, and publicly, because we would travel. I mean, I was in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I was in Savannah, Georgia. I mean, all over up and down, and Pittsburgh, great Pittsburgh. I mean, just everywhere, and I would travel a lot. Tennessee, Tommy Barton with water circle, circus, I think we were at, was great, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Dolly Parton place. And you got to make appearances and meet people and talk to them about the show, and what they liked about the show, and bring that back to the studio, and tell your fellow cast mates about how appreciated they are. And also, you know, it was a wonderful way to see America. I mean, my God. A lot of places I got taken. I got to see the town a little bit, meet the people, get to know my country. You know, America is a fantastic land. I mean, it's so different, and so many different parts of the country. So, it was lots of fun. It was great. What should we do? Do you have any, like, wonderful experiences when you were about traveling over America? Like, did you have, like, a fan that you could not forget when they met you, saying anything about hope, or anything that you were doing? Do you have any of those kind of precious moments that you keep beside you? You know, I think that they were just basically always about what you like to kiss Alan. Like, I mean, that was basically the big thing. I mean, you know, we love you what you did. Like, I mean, they would ask about other people on this show and what they would like. Oh, you know, I mean, we had some famous fans too. I mean, do you want to go into that? But it's really funny. Let's, let's, let's, we can bring it on, don't we? We can, we can bring that, we can give a little cheese on that one. Let's, let's, let's. While I was on the show, there was an article and TV guide about what big movie stars and, and people of fame watched different shows, and one of the people, I won't mention all the people that watch a guy like one of the people who spread his stare, which I thought was kind of fascinating. And that one I did not know. Yeah, yeah, it's not amazing. And I'll tell you of others in the future, but I mean, so I mean, it's just sort of like, we, I remember we were all sitting there in the studio looking at this thread of scares watching us, you know, I mean, kind of scare. I mean, that sort of like, it made, it made you understand that when you were on television, actually, anybody could turn it on and see you. It's sort of funny. You weren't, we worked in an isolated studio. We'd go there, like anybody would go to their office every day, do your job and leave. We weren't in front of a live audience in the theater. We didn't have any live audience. So we were just, we were working the cocoon. So unless you went out to do a public appearance or read about something like that, you sort of disconnected that actually there were millions of people watching. I mean, I think we had 25 million people watching in the show. We were, we were, we were number one battling against General Hospital. There was a two to the top shows. And we were all watching each other, you know, we were all saying, well, what are you doing? We're doing this. What are you doing? It was great. You got to meet all the stars from the other shows, all the great actors, and Chad at different events. It was just wonderful. I remember, I remember presenting at the Emmy Awards. I was a Christopher Burnell and I presented at the Emmy Awards, the date on Emmy Awards, and the category we were presenting was Best Writer. And Doug with Marlon, their head writer won. So we got a great moment of presenting that. So that was wonderful. That was fantastic. Let's, let's talk about Doug Marlon. He was one of my, he was one of my favorites. I mean, I grew up with him on, when he was on "Avival Turns" and never got to be watch his stuff live when he was on "Godding Light." And, you know, he, he was a fantastic head writer. Miss him still to this day. There will be never, never another one like him. What was it like with working with him? I'll tell you a funny story. I'll tell you a funny story. We were on location and I think it was the Canary Islands room location and he and John Wesley Schiff and I and others were having dinner that night after shooting. And we were just laughing our heads off and cracking jokes and just, I was just howling with laughter. And he turned to John Schiff and said, "She laughs." And I said, "What are you guys talking about?" And he says, "Well, you're always so sad on the show." I said, "Hey, you write the show. You write me all the time. You write me happy scene. I can laugh." And then we all laughed even harder. He said, "You're absolutely right." I mean, I said, "I'm playing with you. You can't have me laughing through a, through a heartbreaking scene." I said, "You're writing it, Doug." He is writing it. That's true. That's what, you know, I do, I guess I can laugh. You may write me some laughing scenes. I would be thrilled and not have to cry for another day, you know. It's a strange thing. That's so funny. I like that. I like those stories of that. And why you were saying that, John had put something, I don't know if you've heard this or not. So, clarify. She had heard that Joan Crawford called Melette Alexander Epps got in light when she was filling in for Christina, asking Melette for hair and makeup advice. Is that true? Wow. That I did not hear. Let's not share that with me. So, that's fantastic. Isn't that fantastic? That's cool. Yeah. Yeah, Joan Crawford, right. Right. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Have to find that out now. That and another tip was that legend has a Judy Garland stop to performance once when she saw Constance Ford who played Ada on the other world in the audience because she was such a fan. I'm like, "Hmm." That was so funny. Isn't that crazy? That's so funny. That's great. Judy Garland, wonderful, wonderful. Yeah. Oh, just talent. I heard daughter too. My God. What a talent. It was nice to know. See, this is why I rely on soap fans because all of them have all that kind of information that I have absolutely no idea about. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. And this interests me. I was just thinking about another thing, you know, because Doug always had me doing all these crying scenes. I remember calling my mother up and saying, "So depressed. All I do is I come home. I want to cry." And she says, "Well, I've been watching you on the show lately." And all you're doing is crying scenes. So I think you're taking it home with you. You know, she said, "You got to go out and see a funny movie and break the, because you go home and study sad scenes. You go back to the fake cry. You come home and study sad scenes." Yeah. And I thought that was one of the wisest pieces of advice to my mother again. You do really have to separate your work from your life sometimes and really, and sometimes you don't realize when one thing is creeping into the other. It's little things that happen along the way, right? It does. And one thing I love asking people who also have done theater, what is the main difference between theater and television? Because I think... Okay. Well, this is two different kinds of television. I don't know if your audience knows. When we do a soap opera, it was at the time I was on. It was like three or four cameras shooting simultaneously, and you would film it as if you were doing a play. I did not know that. Yes. A regular show, like when I was with the Brady Bonschiffen's dial and were things like that, or the movie would say the Cassidy or Lauren Hutton, that's a single-camera show. So what they would do is they would film you doing your line. They would film Lauren Hutton doing her line. They would film the two of you talking to each other. They would film a wide shot. So that's a single-camera show. Now, the difference between theater and the soap opera is not all that much different, except you're not on the stage or part of an audience in the soap opera, you're in the studio. But in the theater, you know, you have to... You're doing an entire performance, but for about two hours, you know all your lines, you get up there, you change that to all that line from the audience. And the soap opera, you do cut between scenes and move to the next set, and then you get ready and you just... And then you go and you film that scene. But everything. The feature film is usually a single-camera. Maybe if they have a big budget, they might have two or three cameras to cover an important scene, or definitely when they do special, you know, explosions, stuff like that, they'll have multiple cameras. But usually, it's one camera in the actor and the director, basically. Okay. Now, this is also an interesting thing that I want to know from you. This is just... This is a little trivia for you. When this show was live, would you have liked to have done that in my when it was live before it went to tape? Well, it's kind of funny. Probably not. Why? Because I think that's nerve-wracking. I think that even though we knew that we were live on tape, the term they used, you didn't want to do a retake. You did one take and that was it. I mean, very rarely did we do retakes. Even though you knew it was live on tape, you had the energy of a live performance, but you didn't have the anxiety. If I skip a line, I can't fix it. But most of the time, everybody knew their lines. It was funny because when I did start on the show, they did have teleprompters. The teleprompters were where they would have your lines written, and there'd be a teleprompter, a person behind the person you're speaking to rolling the tape with the lines, and then behind you, there'd be another teleprompter. And I found that distracting because I always memorized my lines. I didn't feel what I could do performance, you know, reading it. I mean, it's different than doing a speech, per se. When you're acting, you really should be in the moment and knowing your lines and looking at the person, looking into the actual person, not looking over their shoulders, teleprompter. But that was there for a while, and then they took that away. And the majority of the years were, you know, you just knew your lines, you did your job. But you know, it's a hard show. I mean, you're doing an hour show in one day. People do not understand the incredible work that goes into that. When you look at an hour of prime time drama, I think they have like seven to nine days to shoot it. Yeah, they do. And yes, they're doing multiple camera shots and multiple locations and all that, and most of the time we're in the studio. But when you're doing an hour show in one day, that's an hour show in one day. That's kind of a phenomenal thing, scripted, directed, blocked cameras. It's amazing thing to do. I honestly, I don't know how anybody in daytime does it because it's a shame that people think of daytime as the ugly stepchild. I mean, they think like if you're on daytime television, it's like the kids of death or something. At daytime, it's difficult to do because you have to memorize, what, 80 pages, 80 pages. Listen, if you succeed in daytime and you're good, I mean, you can do anything. I'm convinced of that. I mean, look at the people who just came out of God and were like, just to name a few Joe Beth Williams, Kevin Bacon. I mean, look out. Listen off hard, yeah. I mean, a phenomenal amount of very talented people went through that show. So, I mean, and all the other shows up there. I mean, Meg Ryan was on one of the shows. I mean, Brad Pitt was on another show. I mean, you look at TV and movies and I say, you know, find a percentage of those people this time or daytime. It's a great training ground, great training ground. It really is. And it's wonderful to hear those that did start in daytime still talk about daytime and how they started on daytime and, you know, those kinds of moments I enjoy to hear because some of those, I never even knew started on daytime until I've actually heard them say so. You know, it's amazing how many people started in the world of daytime television and most of them don't attribute what they're doing now on the big screen or in prime time or what have you, whatever John or they're in, they don't acknowledge that they started on daytime. So it's really, it's really a shame that nobody else that nobody else does that or not. I mean, because people move on, I mean, you shouldn't look back in your life too. I mean, it's important to go forward. I think that's a really important part of living is go forward and don't live in the past. I mean, you can reminisce and all that stuff. But if they don't want to go back to daytime, they've done that. They've moved on. Usually when they're talking, they're trying to promote something that they have at the moment. You know, it's more about that. I mean, people need to, I mean, you know, you can rehash. I mean, this is wonderful. We're talking about it because guiding life's going off the air and we're reminiscing and we're going to do it and all that. But then let's see what everybody does next too. I mean, I hope guiding life does have a future life in some way. I hope they can do that out. But all the performers and the writers and the crew, the great crew, wonderful crews over there, producers, production, everybody's able to go on to very interesting things. They both come from a great training ground and also give you a bravery to go out to the next thing, I think. Also, it's interesting what you don't know. Sometimes when you go through something, when you go through experience working experience or life experience and then you move to the next stage of your life, you don't realize what you've learned or are capable of until you're called upon to use it. And then you say, "Oh yeah, well, I know how to do that or I can do this or I can cope with that." And that's a very positive thing. I think it's very important to look that way as things. So I don't think that anybody who was on daytime is not talking about it because they don't want to. It's just because they're on to the next thing more than they think. Because most people that I speak to who have been on daytime, always say how an amazing experience it was for them in their training. Now, speaking of daytime as a whole, looking from it on the outside in, lots of people are saying that daytime is a dying breed. Do you agree with that statement or do you think that... Not at all. Not at all. I think it's just a matter of... I think maybe we should do a little bit more publicity out there for daytime. I think that I know that when we were on the show we did a lot of publicity. Also there were only four networks when I was on. Now there's multiple choices. I'll tell you a couple of shows that I think are phenomenally interesting. Great army wives. It's fantastic. Love army wives. Army wives is fantastic. I mean I'm dying to be on that show. That's the show I'd love to be in. I mean I'd love to be on any show. But that show, I was speaking with the great writer Howie Simone the other day and Howie's the writer and he understands the daytime and nighttime and all these things and we were saying how on army wives they can even make adopting a dog. A very interesting and fun chapter of a show. Having a total understanding of the human beings, human foibles, human needs, ones, desires. That's a really great show. Dropped at Diva. No Diva? Yeah Dropped at Diva. That's fantastic also. There's some wonderful products out there. Unfortunately they're on cable rather than on network. Why aren't shows like that on network? That's what I want to know. I mean I don't know. Yeah I mean there's more than the amount of talent out there that's not being used. I think there's a... We're having so much reality show right now that I'm not sure what's going on. I'm not sure it's... I'm not sure what the networks have in mind for the future. We'll see. Yeah because reality shows they're pretty much taking up the almost the entire airway because they're cheap to produce. That's pretty much all it is now. It's really... Reality TV is cheap to produce. They don't have to pay actors all this money. They don't have to worry about paying money for usage of sets and props and everything of the sort. So why wouldn't they want to... Except if they're losing their audience I think. I think everybody... They really are. Young old and whatever is saying to me I can't take it anymore. I mean so I think that that's... I think they've moved up. You know another wonderful staying powers law and order is the law and order shows. And they are in a way soap opera too because you are involved with the major characters on the shows, the detectives and the lawyers. And they only let us in a little bit to their private life once in a while. They let us in a little bit more. And I think that they bring back the audience a great deal. So it is soap opera almost. I mean this is a long loyalty to those shows. A wonderful show. It's a great producer. Just great stuff. Really good. Here's a question that is kind of being like bumped back and forth between online and myself as well. Would you like to see guiding lights go to like an internet format or back on radio? Someone said if it went back on radio would people listen to it? I mean it did start on radio. You never know but... Well I'll say something. I listen to NPR all the time. So there is a great radio of audience. NPR brings me a lot of information and interviews with interesting people and arts and music and all that stuff. So maybe there is a chance for that. I kind of think though the people do like to see guiding light people, the characters. They do like to see the actors. I just see them. But one never knows. One never knows. The world is changing. We do like to see the guideline characters. We also don't want to see it end of course. One of the biggest rumors and we also talked about this too was how the characters of Rebring Josh played by Robert Newman and Kim Zimmer would take their characters from guiding light two as the world turns. And speaking from experience, I don't like that. Is that word to happen? I don't think it's going to but if it were, I think that would be a move that should not take place. And I would like your opinion on that. Well you know, I don't know what would, I don't know that that's true and I don't know if it's going to happen or not. But I mean if it were to be happening, I'm sure that the producers and the writers would have a very well thought out storyline to integrate it into that new world for these characters. You know, to just take them as they are. I was no connection to a new show. Of course, I don't think anybody's considering that. Is it good? Is it bad? You don't know. I mean, they have a following. They're wonderful actors. It just depends on the content of the materials they're given. You know, what's the, what's the, and I'm, isn't Robert in the play off Broadway right now in sessions? I think I read about that. I know he, yeah, I know he was. I heard about it. I'm not sure what's going on with it as a distinct. But it, it'd be weird. I mean, honestly, for me, I don't know if I would be able to go through another Jake and Vicki Redux kind of thing when they brought the another world characters over onto another show and continued that storyline from that show. I just, I feel like they should keep like Reven and Josh where they are and have them have the storybook ending romance that they should have, which is why I felt that they should have thought about the world. I mean, wait, wait, wait, I don't mean to interrupt, but I mean, have they definitely announced that they're moving these two characters as those characters, or are they both going on as new characters, different characters to a new show? From what I'm hearing, they're looking into bringing over those two as they're guiding like characters of Reven and Josh. And with David Kriesman coming on as head writer, who's to say that's not possible? And if they were, like I said, if they were to make that move, I think that would be, I think that would be an awful move to make because I don't want to see those two characters ruined after they're, their end on guiding light. To me, I think that's what happened with Jake and Nick. I mean, they killed off both those characters, first of all. And I didn't like that as well. Because now I have to think about, now I thought about the fact that what, what a similar fate happened to those two characters on a different show now. I honestly don't want to have to remember that these two characters are either gone off the face of the Earth, their characters were killed off. Also, wouldn't it mean, wouldn't it mean the end of the possibility of continuing, well, I mean, there are many characters on Dining Light, but wouldn't it mean the end of the possibility of guiding light continuing on another way, on the radio or on the internet, if they put the main characters onto another show? Yeah, I do think that. I mean, and you also can say that too with the Crystal Chappelle going to the days of our lives now. Going back as Carly Manning, you know, I mean, she's involved in one of the hugest storylines and one of the hugest fan bases that are out there. And I think that core character right now, if it were to continue in some kind of capacity, you know, there probably would be a lot of backlash, yes, I agree with that. And, you know, I think a lot of people would not want to see Gun and Light without the Olivia and Natalia relationship. And I feel that they could also say the same thing also with Raven Josh, because they're a huge stinkle. No matter what kind of trauma and trials and relations that those two characters have gone through, Josh and Riva were it. They still are it. And I don't think a lot of people will want to see them continue in another show. All right. Well, then let me ask you this question. It's got to be like where to go to the internet or radio show. What characters do you think that they would definitely need in order to carry the guiding light? Josh, to me, the first and foremost, I think, should be the first two that come to mind in order for to survive online. That's a lesson. The lesson will be in the lesson, Alan's following me another one. That's Michael O'Leary and the Bauer family has to. The Bauer family should be re-instated. I say that because where has the Bauer family been? You know what I mean? And they really haven't done anything with the Bauer family until probably about this point. And that's another thing that brings to mind is why haven't, why are you now doing something for the Bauer family where you could have done something for the Bowers? Months ago, it's not a couple of years ago. You know what I mean? Well, they're tripping out the shows. You know, they're just doing what they want to do. They end up to show a lot of stories, I guess. Yeah. You know, you'd have to ask their head writer. I mean, the writer and the producer. You know, you have to ask them. It's all, it's all writer tripping, I'm telling you. It is. Can I see Beth in, I mean, I think she could very well be in the guiding light if it went on to an internet format, but do I finish she's necessarily needed highly in order for her to survive? No, I don't. Well, maybe not as written now, but maybe as written later. So you never see that that's the thing. It depends on the story line. That's true. Yeah, it's become important to the story line. So it's always succeeded by that. So, you know, I mean, so if they go on to another show, that's great. Their fans will be happy to see them. How it's worked in is up to the writers and the producers and and we can only see what happens. That's true. That's true. I mean, time will come now exactly what where everything's going to be taken. And, you know, everybody's pretty much saying the same thing that you should have been brought back in for the finale of the show. And not if like and not only as if the character hope, but also they should do like on the last week of the show, a retrospective and have you done it. It's shot. It's gone. It's back. The show's gone now. Yeah. It's a feather complete. There's nothing else to do. I mean, I just I wish everybody luck. We all we all have our hope. You know what I mean? We all we saw still had our hopes, but you know, we had our hope. We had our hope. We did. We did have our hope now. We had our hope. We did. I can't I can't deny that. I can't deny that we did have our hope pun intended. But, you know, what can you do? And speaking of which let's let's talk about this tribute show that we have coming up on the 18th of next week that we are working on. For those of you who do not know, but we have been pivoting it out for a little bit, we are having a little tribute show. I shouldn't say little, but we're having a big tribute show next week of the Guiding Life here on this program at the same time at 1 p.m. and there and I have been working on for some people to be coming on to the show. And I do have to tell you, I do have to tell you, Colin was put into recurs to make it apparent on the show, by the way. I didn't tell you that. That will be wonderful to talk in. So, yeah, looking as if he wants to do it, though I should have the final confirmation before the week is out. But, John Driscoll, who did play Henry Cooper Bradshaw on the show, he will be making appearance. I know you have some confirmation, Denise Pence, and Krista Tesaro. And how he said that, Judy Evans will most likely be making an appearance on the show as well. Great, that'd be fantastic. I found that out too, and I found out that Grant Alexander is interested in making an appearance on the show. Oh, wouldn't that be fantastic? That'd be great. So, there's that and there's a few others that Halley said have been interested in coming here. I don't think we should mention them yet, should we? Not unless they're confirmed, I think. Not unless they're confirmed, but yeah. Couldn't then find out, tune in and find out. I'll tell you all who they are once I have the confirmation that I'm not on the new now. But, Halley Simon has definitely said there's a lot of other people who are interested in coming here. And there's a lot of people that people will remember from the golden era of God invited us. I'd like to call it. I think people will be interested. I think people will be talking about it once those names come to to remember to hear everybody's full stories and reminisce. I'll be in my way to say goodbye to the show for all of us. I really do. I really think that would be great to have happened, and hopefully those that we are still working on, they will make, they will come out, they will show, they will show their love for the life. So, just keep tuning back into buzzworthyradio.net for all the information. I want to thank our guest, Javier Roussell, for coming on to the show today. She will be back for this tribute show next week, by the way. So, I want to thank you for calling in and all that. And I just want to thank you again for coming out and coming on again next week. It's a pleasure having you here. It's been great talking to you all these weeks. I'm looking forward to talking with you again next week as well. And I just want to thank you again. You were great, you were fantastic. I love you. And you're great too. It was interesting talking to you. It was interesting bringing up the past memories also. Thank you. Thank you so much. You take care and we'll see you here again next week, same time. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Goodbye everybody. Bye-bye. All right guys. We are going to wrap things up here. I want to tell you that tomorrow at 10 a.m. We're only going to be doing a 15-minute show because we're part of a radio tour with Michael Cohen. He is on the new Bravo show, Miami Social, which just premiered on the 14th of July. It airs on Bravo at 10 p.m. Eastern time and Pacific time. And Michael Cohen was formerly of In Touch Magazine, by the way. He's now a freelance editor. So we're going to be talking to him about Miami Social. And how did Miami Social get him fired from In Touch Magazine? Yes. We're going to be talking to him about that. He also does commentary on CNN's show bid tonight. So we're going to be talking to him tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. So absolutely, guys. Check us out tomorrow if you can. But also, I just want to emphasize, make sure you check us out on the 18th of August at 1 p.m. with this guiding light tribute show. We're going to have lots of fun. 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