Guiding Light R.I.P.
Tina Sloan details events that led to writing new book "Changing Shoes"!
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Since the end of Guiding Light, the beloved Tina Sloan (Ex-Lillian) has been one busy woman. First playing to sell-out crowds with her one-woman stage show Changing Shoes, and now come September 16th the book version, Changing Shoes: Getting Older — Not Old — With Style, Humor, and Grace will be available in bookstores near you. However, you can go the Changing Shoes website and pre-order it now!
In a recent interview with TV Guide, Tina revealed why she made the the decision to write the book and stage show, which details growing older and staying vital in a world, in a market that accents the young and the gorgeous, and how Sloan pulled herself out of a dark funk that inspired her. Sloan elaborated, “I allowed myself to feel diminished by the world and then I decided I wasn’t going to let that happen anymore. I fought back. I lost a lot of years but now I realize that loss made me who I am right now. For a while there, I resigned from the world. At GL, I stopped going into the production office to talk to the people who make the show. I just stayed in my dressing room eating and eating. But when I started going back into that office, and chatting with the other actors in their dressing rooms, that’s when I started to come alive again. That’s how Crystal Chappell and I became great friends, and that’s why I’m on [Chappell’s web soap] Venice. When they called me to do [the web soap] Empire, I said yes! You have to keep yourself relevant. And as I started writing the book I started losing weight because I was happy again. It’s so easy to slip into that place of nonexistence. It’s like going into a coma. You’re there but you’re not there, like you’re living in a wide-awake dream.”
Guiding Light R.I.P.
Former Y&R, Santa Barbara, Capitol, and Guiding Light Executive Producer John Conboy Dead
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Reports surfaced on Friday that legendary soap opera executive producer, John Conboy had passed away.
Judith Chapman (Gloria, Y&R) posted the news of Conboy’s death on her facebook page along with these sentiments: “It is with a heavy heart and a grateful smile that I called him my friend,, “BIG” JOHN CONBOY, the ORIGINAL Producer on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, left us today The Big Guy, with the BIG LAUGH, Man about Town, and One HELLUVA PRODUCER… Whether you loved him, or not ..YOU have to agree He was ONE OF A KIND! God Bless you, John. Give Jeanne a Hug from all of us.”
CBS Daytime also tweeted: “We join Judith and the CBS Daytime community in mourning the loss of John Conboy. John was a longtime Executive Producer on #YR, created Capitol and later was EP of Guiding Light. He will remain in our hearts forever.”
Conboy was the original executive producer of The Young and the Restless and remained with the show from its inception in 1973 through to 1982. Prior to that, he served as the EP on CBS’ Love is a Many Splendored Thing from 1970-1973. After Y&R, John next launched CBS’ new soap Capitol and stayed as the EP up through its cancellation in 1987.
John made a comeback in 1991 with the one and only Santa Barbara, where he served as the top executive of the series for a time, with the last soap he helmed being Guiding Light from 2002-2004.
Throughout his daytime career, Conboy picked up four Daytime Emmys – three for the soaps, and one for an afternoon special. (more…)
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OLTL Alum Tuc Watkins Joins GL Alum Matt Bomer And An All-Star Cast In Broadway Revival Of Boys In The Band!
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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking play, Boys in the Band, a limited engagement of the theatrical production is scheduled next year from April 30–August 12, 2018 a the Booth Theatre on Broadway.
The cast will feature none other than former One Life to Live star, Tuc Watkins (Ex-David) and former Guiding Light star, Matt Bomer (Ex-Ben) along with Andrew Rannells, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and more. The play will be directed this time out by two-time Tony winner, Joe Mantello.
The Boys in the Band centers around a group of gay men who gather in a New York City apartment for a friend’s birthday party. As the evening continues, the cracks beneath their friendships begin to show, exposing the self-inflicted heartache that threatens their solidarity. (more…)
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