Singing "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" on Iris's patio.

GREAT headline, OP.

Can't find anything about Lemay dying, but did find this interview.

We did sort of cover this concept in an earlier thread title, my dearest one.

He last had a production of a play in 2016

Thanks, R1, I know it is similar to another thread from a while back, but, if the sad news is true, it's appropriate.

I don't [italic] feel [/italic] ancient, but I'm in '50s and Mom and Grammy had ANOTHER WORLD on when I was growing up.

I remember (barely) Caroline Johnson, flashbacks to various folks picking up the statue that clubbed Wayne Addison to death, and more clearly, Alice running off to be Dennis Carrington's nurse in New York, Rachel's redemption, the arrival of Iris (even at a younger age I could see her fascination with her father was a bit much), Robert and Lenore, Steve and Alice, St. Croix, John falling for Olive ("All-leave") and her hottie b.f. Evan Webster, Steve's 'death', and the Frame siblings.

School was horrible, a parent had died, and being able to escape into Bay City for an hour (and later 90 minutes) was a joy.

I can't say I was turned on by any of the guys (not that they weren't hot -- I was young) or that I regarded Mac as the ultimate father the way other viewers did, but I remember them all living these tortured and glamorous lives that were examined and celebrated.

Years later, I got through a mutual acquaintance a SIGNED copy of [italic] Eight Years in Another World [/italic].

It's a prized possession.

If anyone sees an update please post.

TIA.

Also: the slashing of Iris' portrait, I swear I remember seeing 'HiYa, Iris' and Gail Brown stealing scenes left and right, Angie/Willis/Gwen (that first Willis was so sexy and cocky!), the friendship between Jamie and Dennis

I’ll be singing a happy tune if its true. He was a miserable old alcoholic. Oh happy days!!!!! Best news since McKunty croaked off 10 years ago.

I think it's just a rumor.

No sign of anything in the news.

R5, how could you not mention Dennis (or “Dinnis,” as Dawn Wheeler in Texas addressed him) and Jamie finding the chopped up remains of their beloved Rocky under the floorboards of the boathouse? And didn’t John Braden, who played Rocky, actually play a butcher on a series of commercials for meat seasoning?

R8, those and a million more...Elliot Wainright (sp?), Rachel working on Mac's bust, the monologue she gave about driving by the house Mac bought for her when she was a kid, those knockdown scenes from a marriage battles they'd have, I left off my favorite heroine -- Pat Matthews -- the show never recovered from losing her IMHO, gossipy Aunt Liz and her devastation when Mac chose Rachel. Louise Goddard talking to her plants, Ada's no-nonsense approach to life....it was so sad to see AW lose 90%+ of this as the years went on.

Harding returned in the late 80s and you could see his imprint on the show, but what...the strike happened and he was out? What a waste.

I was kind of assumed back then that Dennis and Jamie were a couple.

I loved how Lisby Larson would always lift her chin up when she'd say 'Dennish"

We Love Soaps is reporting Harding Lemay died on May 26 at age 96.

He was an old drunk.

Highly overrated writer. Very pretentious dialogue. Didn't really care for his writing on any soap he created.

Very sad.

Victoria Wyndham is the only one left of the main AW crew from the glory days of the 70s.

Yes, I know, there are some other actors like Beverly Penberthy, Gail Brown, Susan Sullivan, etc. who were also there. But they weren't part of the main A team like Mac and Rachel and Iris, Steve and Alice.

RIP, Pete.

I thought Wyndham died in December of 2015, and it was announced in May 2016.

Still alive

Paid death notice Harding Lemay in NY Times. Surprised they didn't do a full obit of him given his accomplishments.

Lemay's scenes moved like molasses.

Slower than molasses. He ruined AW by the time he left.

OP, here; well, it was true. I didn't have it official at the time, but sadly, I was correct.

RIP, Harding Lemay.

story on Lemay's passing.

Where’s he buried? I want to go piss on his grave.

R25. I'll go with you. I hated the Rachel Mac Iris triangle. WTF. It was so perverted- a love triangle between a father, daughter and a rather unfortunate looking woman. Incest was the old gas bags middle name. Ugh.

And the daughter looked *maybe* 10 years younger than the father.

Which one of you bitches wrote this on Soap Digest's website?

"He ruined every soap he touched. Most notably, the way he destroyed AW and its most popular actors. A nasty, bitter old man who should have been an accountant."

Are Spicen and the Drew Dixon Douche the same person?

Dunno, but any time I read their nonsense I just blockity block block right away.

I don't block him because when I do, I'm forever clicking on some thread he posted in that continues to generate numbers I can see in the farthest right column. Not perfect, the blockity block block process.

Serial asshole nutjob is losing it, again. Everyone on the tweeterer is ripping him a new one.

Serial = Drew Dixon Douche?

Where does Serial tweet?

Thea-tuh actors never really last on soaps. Lemay was pretentious. God that awful dialogue where people would say 'she is trying to improve her station in life' - NOBODY not even the biggest snobs I've known, have every talked like that. Yes it's theatrical. But also laughable. He despised the matriarch of Another World because she did not like his dialogue. Well she was there at the beginning and he wasn't. She(Ginny Dwyer) was also a dear friend of Irna Phillips so I'm certain he felt her disloyal to HIM. What an arse he was. Dear Harding burn in hell.

Ha ha! None of you ever met his wife. He was already in Hell.

[quote]NOBODY not even the biggest snobs I've known, have every talked like that.

We hear you bro! But we also brought in the ratings.

R35 Is that you Ginny?

Or is it just some bitter ass queen?

whom

R35, that's right.

We say 'you and your mother are consummate opportunists from the Valley!'