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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From Michael Fairman On-Air On-Soaps!
To all of our fantastic soapers and colleagues, Michael Fairman On-Air On-Soaps wants to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Through your passion, loyalty, thought-provoking opinions and commentary, you have become our very special extended family and because of you we have developed a community that shares a love for the soap opera genre whether it be via serialized storytelling on daytime or primetime television, or on the web.
We thank you for your continued support and visits to MF On-Air On-Soaps and look forward to the final days of 2012, when we deliver to you our final interview of the year, and it’s a biggie! Plus, our annual Best and Worst in Soaps! Find out who will take top honors for the year! Till then, ho-ho-ho … and have a wonderful day today.
Xo’s Michael
Happy holidays Michael…I have a question.. If prospect park is going to put the soaps on line. People signed contracts remember… Didnt Frank Valentini sign a contract too? Will he have to leave GH? Or Will ABC Buy that contract-because ratings are really up..
Merry Christmas Michael. Love your site and your continued enthusiasm for the soap genre.
Happy New Year and the best of 2013 to you.
Very Merry Christmas hope Santa was good to you. My wishes our SOAPS stay on. God bless you Michael. I appreciate your info all year.xo
Merry Christmas Michael and a prosperous 2013! You have always been very gracious since I discovered your site, all the best in the future!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Michael! I’m no longer on Twitter but I was happy to discover your site and I check it daily and love it!
Merry Christmas Michael!!! Happy almost New Year!!! Hope it brings great things for you! Love your site and all that you do!!! You are the best and we appreciate al that you do for us and for the genre we love!!! I hope we get more podcasts and video interviews in 2013! Love you and have a Merry Christmas!!! Stay healthy and happy and thank you!
Happy Holidays, Michael.
Back at you Michael! Thanks for providing a site where we can trust what’s being said. And thank you for your passion for soaps and sharing your great scoops. All the best to you and yours in 2013!
Thanks Michael, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you also!
Happy Holidays to you THank you for providing us with the news of the day about our soap operas and its people. I am so glad to be able to have someone in my life that brings joy to all the soap opera fans.Have a great NewYears and thank you again for sharing XO
Thanks Mr. Fairman. Thank you for keeping us updated on soap news, love your site, the information and interviews, etc..Nice to encounter a devoted soap fan in you, so enthused and devoted like we are.
Have a great Holiday and Happy/best New Years!
I check in every day, Michael. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Have a Happy Holidays, Michael!
Happy Holidays Michael!!!!
happy holidays and thank you
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Merry Christmas to you as well, Michael!
This is my favorite site, I check it every day. Thank you for this site & your support of our shows! We have in common our love for OLTL. Best to you always!
Merry Christmas and Happy, Healthy New Year to you and yours Michael, and to all of those on this wonderful site. I thank you for keeping us so well informed about our beloved soaps!!!!
Happy holidays and a blessed new year to you!
Love your site. My favorite for all things soap. keep up the great work and thanks for all your hard work!
Happy Holidays to you too! I love this site! I check it twice every week.
Happy Hoilday,my friend and thanks for kept us post about GH and Steve Burton’s updates. These two are very important to me.. Ty again 🙂
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Malachy McCourt, ‘Ryan’s Hope’ and ‘All My Children’ Actor, Dead at 92
If you watched Ryan’s Hope through its 14-year-run, you know that Kevin the bartender became a beloved “member’ of the Ryan clan on the defunct ABC daytime drama series. The character of Kevin MacGuiness became so loved by the fans because of the actor who portrayed him, Malachy McCourt.
Sadly, according to his wife Diana McCourt to The New York Times, Malachy passed away on Monday from a heart condition and battling cancer. The actor was 92-years-old.
Playing Kevin on Ryan’s Hope was not much of a stretch for McCourt, because in his lifetime, he was the owner of 1950s Irish pub Malachy’s on Third Avenue in Manhattan. Known as one of the city’s great story-tellers, patrons from longshoremen to the actor Richard Harris would stop in and talk all things Irish with . On Ryan’s Hope, Kevin was best friends to “Ryan’s Bar” owner, Johnny Ryan (Bernie Barrow) and he tried to keep Delia (Ilene Kristen) on the straight and narrow.
In his soap opera career, McCourt also was widely-known for his role of Father Clarence McCourt on All My Children especially come Christmastime. Was Clarence, actually St. Nick? That was always the proverbial question. McCourt also appeared on the New York soaps: One Life To Live, Search For Tomorrow and Another World. Other roles included: Devil’s Own, Brewster’s Millions, The Molly Maguires, and Starman, to nameÂ
Later in 2006, Malachy ran for governor of the state of New York as a Green Party candidate. He tackled social issues of the time including being an advocate for gay and lesbian groups to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
McCourt’s childhood was recounted within his brother Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela’s Ashes, which detailed their mother’s attempt to raise the four of their surviving seven children in poverty in Limerick, Ireland. Later, Malachy wrote his own memoirs: 1998’s Monk Swimming, and 2000’s Singing My Him Song.
Malachy is survived by his aforementioned wife, Diana, daughter Siobhan McCourt; sons Malachy Jr., Conor and Cormac; stepdaughter Nina Galin; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
Share you remembrances and condolences for Malachy McCourt via the comment section, but first check out this scene from a 1983 episode of “Ryan’s Hope” featuring the late actor with Ilene Kristen.
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‘Live with Kelly and Mark’s’ Annual ‘After the Oscars’ Show Brings Backstage Interviews, Fashion Review and Red Carpet Arrivals from Movie’s Biggest Night
Monday morning, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the talk show’s annual Oscar post show.
However, this time it would be Consuelos’ first time as the co-host of ‘Live’ for an Oscars episode. Mark took over the gig from Ryan Seacrest to team with his wife back in April of 2023 and since then the show has seen a ratings spike hitting several all-time highs.
The After the Oscars show opened with a tribute to the movies were the former All My Children stars took on iconic roles from: Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct to Barbie and Ken in Barbie, to the Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller role’s in the romantic comedy Something About Mary and more.
During After the Oscars, Kelly and Mark were shown in clips backstage as the first stop for the newly-anointed Academy Award winners including: Finneas and Billie Eilish and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. The Bachelor host, Jesse Palmer was the talk show’s guest correspondent who spoke to the nominees, and celebrities as they were entering the Dolby Theatre on Sunday night.
Singer Andy Grammar took to the stage and performed on Live’s After the Oscars show as well, and Project Runaway’s Elaine Welteroth shared her thoughts on the night’s Oscar fashion.
You can watch the full ‘Live with Kelly and Mark After the Oscars’ show below, plus the full movie parody below that. Now let us know, what do you think of Kelly and Mark’s first post-Oscar show together on ‘Live’? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
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EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Young, Joan Collins and Nadia Bjorlin to Prague to Film ‘Murder Between Friends’
On Thursday night during the Michael Fairman Channel’s livestream interview centering around Jason Cook’s (ex-Shawn, DAYS and ex-Matt, GH) latest movie Four For Fun which stars Brytni Sarpy (Elena, Y&R) and Jacob Young (ex-JR, AMC, ex-Rick, B&B and ex-Lucky, GH), revealed another upcoming film project with some very familiar faces.
Jacob Young shared an exclusive that he is set to direct, produce and star in a Agatha Christie-like murder mystery feature film aptly tiled Murder Between Friends.
Speaking on the upcoming project, Jacob said, “I’m flying at the end of the March to Prague to direct, produce and star in a film with Joan Collins (ex-Dynasty). Nadia Bjorlin (ex-Chloe, Days of our Lives) is in it, and Toby Alexander Smith from Eastenders (ex-Gray Atkins). Plus, a couple of my Broadway friends and a very well known Czech actress (Hana Vagnerova).”
According to Jacob, the production start date is April 1st. He added on the premise of the film, “It’s very Agatha Christie sort of ‘Knives Out’ without having a hundred million dollars to shoot it, but still will be a lovely film nonetheless.” Young said the plan is to finish all principal photography by April 17th.
IMDb has more on the film. It shared that former All My Children star Trent Garrett (ex-Asher Pike) is listed as co-directing the feature. Mark Rozzano is listed as writer of Murder Between Friends.
So, what do you think about this upcoming feature from Jacob that will feature Joan Collins, Nadia Bjorlin et al? Share your thoughts in the comment section.Â
Then below, check out the full livestream conversation with Jason Cook, Brytni Sarpy and Jacob Young on ‘Four For Fun’ and their notable soap roles.
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