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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 1 Oct 1982, p. 34

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DAYTIME © Sesame StrMt CD © @3) 60 Varied Programs CD Muppet Shaw CD (39) Financial Now* Network 0j) MSN Programming © (H) Stock Markot © Sanyo © ESPN Sparta Cantor © O I Lava liKy 60 Romper Room 9:30 AM 0 CD Wheel of Fortune O Edg* of Night O (2D Child'* Play CD Soap World CE) Toko Charge! ffl Q) Business Nowinkan Wl Carol Burnett and Friends ©©Shape Up © © WHool of Fortune © Pictvro of Health 10:00AM O $25,000 0 CD Texas G O Price Is Right O CD CD Love Root CE) $2) too ch* CD Mr. Regan' Neighborhood CD Cable Health World Roport CD (3D Jim Rakker © £$) ©Newt S) Richard Simmon* © Woman's Day USA HI (39) Varied Programs 60 (Tft Texas 60 Tic Toe Dough © Rady Ruddies 10:15AM © dD stock Can I please have Billy Dee Williams' address. I' think he's the sexiest actor around. Williams, who just wrapped "Revenge of the Jedi" in London, can be reached through his publi­ cist,' Gloria Luckinbill at Rogers and Cowan, 9665 Wilshire Blvd.. Suite 200, Beverly Hills. Calif. 90212. MY SWEET GEORGE -- Where can I write former Beatle George Harrison? You can write Harrison at his production company, where he seems to be spending more and more time these days. The address is Handmade Films, 26 Cadogan Square. London S.W. 1, England. MISSY'S TWIN -- Does Missy Gold on "Benson" have a twin? I saw her picture in a magazine, but the caption said Tracey Gold. Not a twin, but a sister. Tracey starred this year as one of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton's daughters in "Shoo* the Moon." PUNJAC QUESTION -- Can you tell me the name of ihe actor who played Punjab in "Annie"? He also stars in the 7-Up commercials. If my mem­ Market 10:30 AM O Child's Play CD Electric Company CD Spodal Presentation © (2D Ask an Export ©Soap World © Are You Anybody? © (3D Another Life 60 In Search of.... 60 Varied Programs 11 K)0AM O Tattlatales O (£) The Doctors O CD Donahue O CD Family Food O (2D Young and the Restless o Rig Valley CD (33) News talk CD Instructional Programs © © ® 60 Varied Ask Kate Paging Billy Dee By Kate Woods [ SoopWhirl ] "All My Children" is new ratings champ Billy Dee Williams ory serves me correctly, he once did "The Bottle Imp" on TV years back. Trinidad-born Geoffrey Holder is the talented man in question. Holder who is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, director, costume designer and actor (not to mention painter and gourmet chef). played Alladin in an early TV role. "Ask Kate" welcomes all questions pertaining to television and show busi­ ness personalities, but because of the volume of mail involved, personal replies are not possible. Send your letters to Kate Woods, United Feature Syndicate, 200 Park Ave., Room 602, New York, N. Y. 10166. ©1982 Compulog By Connie Passalacqua It was quite a landmark for the daytime community this past summer when "All My Children" edged out "Gen­ eral Hospital" from the No. 1 position in the Neilsen ratings, a perch "GH" had consistently held for the last three years. The struggle, though, had not been like that between a David and Goli­ ath. "All My Children" has always been a high-rated soap since its 1970 debut. The show has long been a favorite of such intellectual soap audiences as college students. Why is "All My Children" deservedly the best soap on the TV scene today? Doubtlessly because the show was the creation of Agnes Nixon, the medium's most successful writer. Mrs. Nixon has been writing soaps for more than 30 years. In addition to "All My Children," she created "One Life to Live" and served as headwriter of both "Another World" and "As the World Turns" when both alternately held the No. 1 position in the Neilsens in the '50s and '60s. Mrs. Nixon learned her craft under the late Irna Phillips, the "queen" of soaps who originated such serials as "Guiding Light" and "ATWT." Mrs. Nixon has the knack of creating complex characters who are neither stereotyplcally Agnes Nixon good nor evil but human. She mixes these characters into interweaving storylines that are usually at the same time entertaining and socially relevant. During the last year or so, Mrs. Nixon has empha­ sized the use of comedy, a much-neglected soap element. Among her crea­ tions are cornpone Opal Gardner, the hick mother played by soap veteran Dorothy Lyman. The char­ acter was an instant hit, helping Miss Lyman to win this year's Emmy for Best Supporting Actress. Miss Lyman successfully plays off Louis Edmonds, who plays her foppish mar­ ried lover, Langley Walling- ford. Susan Lucci, who has played villainous Erica Kane since the show's debut, has also had many comic moments this year, now that the character has suddenly become a suc­ cessful model a la Cheryl Tiegs. ©1982 Compulog

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