January 2008 News Archive (Page 5)

A couple weeks ago, we posted part one of an interview Sarah Brown gave to TV Guide. In it, the actress spoke enthusiastically about her return to General Hospital.

Now, take a look at highlights from part two of the conversation:

TVGuide.com: Of course, Laura Wright is now playing Carly, so you are creating a new role....
Sarah Brown: I'm going to be playing Claudia Zacchara. She is the eldest daughter of Anthony Zacchara.

TVGuide.com: Is Claudia totally a tough cookie or does she have a soft spot somewhere?
Brown: Oh, she has a soft spot, because she's being played by me. [Laughs] I can't fathom playing a one-dimensional tough cookie on a daytime show. I don’t think that works, whereas it might in other mediums, like prime time. So let me tell you about Claudia....

TVGuide.com: Is she a sexual woman?
Brown: Very. She's a very, very sexual woman. That’s what I'm gathering. There are some really wonderful reasons for that. Like any tough cookie she's tough because she's really fragile, and she's really fragile because she has an Achille's heel. She has a couple of them, and they will develop over this first year. But one in particular she comes to town with, and it's a really good one.

TVGuide.com: What's the dynamic between Claudia and Johnny (Brandon Barash)?
Brown: It's going to be complicated. Johnny was little, apparently, when I left, so Brandon is playing pretty young, I guess. Johnny was young when I was banished and sent away to live with my mother, who had been banished earlier. But I grew up with my father until I was 16 and Johnny was about 8. I was very protective and loving of my "baby brother," so it's parallel to Into the Wild, though there's a little more scab-picking to be done between the two of us.

The brother and sister in that movie are close because they're growing up in a loony bin of a household. There was yelling going on [at the Zaccharas'], a manic-depressive bipolar father.... I haven’t spoken to him since I was banished.

Read the full interview with Brown now.

With a week of daytime drama halfway home, relive each show's compelling action with The Soap Dispenser's recaps of Thursday, January 24 soap operas ...

• One Life to Live
• General Hospital
• Days of Our Lives
• Guiding Light
• All My Children
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• As the World Turns
• The Young and the Restless

Thank you for visiting The Soap Dispenser for soap opera spoilers and news from The Bold and the Beautiful to General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and all the rest. Thanks for making The Soap Dispenser the #1 soap opera site!

The Soap Dispenser staff has added 13 new photos to our picture gallery this week.

Click on any of the thumbnails below - from a Days of Our Lives actress to an As the World Turns stud muffin - for a larger version...

Here's what you can expect on Days of Our Lives next week...

• Roman and Abe learn something important about Hope.

• John and Marlena (Deidre Hall, pictured) head to Ireland this week... and find Colleen Brady!

• Belle assures Shawn of her love for him.

• Colleen admits she faked her death.

• Lexie (Renee Jones) is back!

As everyone knows by now, Sarah Brown is coming back to General Hospital in the role of Claudia Zacchara.

Here is an ABC promo, hyping the return:

Soon, on Guiding Light, Lizzie (Marcy Rylan) is reunited with daughter Sarah. Initially, of course, the character is thrilled. After all, she thought her child had been dead for the last year:

From there, of course, Lizzie grows a bit angry about having her baby kept away from her for so long. Can you blame her?

Jordan Clarke first appeared on Guiding Light in 1974. He then left the series in 1976. Back now since 1996, Clarke is a fan favorite on the show.

Here are a few interesting facts about the actor:

• Clarke's favorite storyline of Billy's was when his alter ego courted Vanessa.

• Previous TV roles include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Cosby Mysteries and Miami Vice.

• Named his daughter, Chelsea,  after the area of Manhattan where the Guiding Light studio was then located.

• Double-majored in philosophy and government at Cornell.

Kimberly McCullough has seemingly spent her entire life in front of a soap opera camera. She debuted at the age of 7.

Now, of course, the character of Robin Scorpio is pregnant on General Hospital. She recently recounted her top five moments in show history. Here's her favorite story from 2007:

"I liked the very first girls' night out. It was the Patrick fantasy scenes where Becky (Herbst, Elizabeth), Natty (Livingston, Emily), Minae Noji, Kelly, Kent King, Lainey and I all got to make out with Jason Thompson. That was so great. It was the first time I got to really work with all of the girls at once.

We all got together in my dressing room that morning and started to run lines. That's how we really started to bond as friends in real life. It was from that moment. I remember we all went out to lunch, after we did the scenes. Jason was the only guy there. It was hilarious.

He was sitting there with five women that he just made out with. We were teasing him, asking him who was the best kisser and really giving him a hard time. He was like, 'Somehow I feel like I should just buy lunch.' And he did."

Check out other stories from McCullough now.

Alicia Minshew came down from floating on air long enough to tell Soap Opera Digest about the way boyfriend Richie Herschenfeld proposed to her last month.

"Richie and I have been talking about getting married sometime in 2008, and I figured maybe sometime in 2008 he'd propose to me. He completely surprised me by doing on December 13," she recounted.

After a long day of work, the All My Children star returned to the apartment she shared with Herschenfeld and "Richie said, ‘Lish, I cooked you dinner,' and I was like, ‘Awesome!' He poured some wine, and I was like ‘Wow, wine, in the middle of the week?' He never does that."

Naturally, such a course of action caused Minshew to wonder about what her boyfriend was up to.

"We sat by the Christmas tree, drank some wine, and the next thing I know we're cleaning up after dinner, and he says, ‘Lish, can you go check the Christmas tree to see if it has enough water?'"

It did. But then Herschenfeld pointed out something on the tree:

"There was a big red bow that was not there two seconds [before]. Apparently when I was leaning over to check the water he stuck it to the tree. I looked closely and dangling from the bow was this silver Tiffany's charm bracelet and I thought, ‘All right! An early Christmas present! Nice!'"

From there, the actress noticed the inscription on the charm: "It said, ‘I love you,' on one side, and I thought, ‘Oh, that's sweet,' and then I turned it on to the other side, and it said, ‘Will you marry me, my sweet Lish.' I swear to God my whole entire body went numb. He said, ‘I've waited my whole life for you. Will you be my wife?' I combusted into tears."

Read the rest of Minshew's account right now.

With a week of daytime drama halfway home, relive each show's compelling action with The Soap Dispenser's recaps of Wednesday, January 23 soap operas ...

• One Life to Live
• General Hospital
• The Bold and the Beautiful
• As the World Turns
• Days of Our Lives
• Guiding Light
• All My Children
• The Young and the Restless

Thank you for visiting The Soap Dispenser for soap opera spoilers and news from The Young and the Restless to One Life to Live, Days of Our Lives and all the rest. Thanks for making The Soap Dispenser the #1 soap opera site!