Kim Zimmer-related stories
Posted Sep 18th 2009 3:28PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Reality-Free

It's a tough day for Daytime Emmy-winning divas. It's the
last episode of Guiding Light, which means
Kim Zimmer and her four Emmys are available for a new gig. And now the news comes out that
Sarah Brown is leaving General Hospital. Sarah Tweeted her exit yesterday, saying, "It's been nice being back at
GH, but it's time for the character to come to an end, at least for me."
Actually, Sarah -- a three-time Emmy winner -- had a tough go-round this time on
General Hospital. She returned to a familiar setting, but instead of resuming the role she originated, Carly Corinthos, she was playing Mafia princess Claudia Zacchara. (Laura Wright is the current Carly.)
Continue reading Sarah Brown's out: will Claudia be killed off General Hospital?
Posted Sep 18th 2009 11:08AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten

When
Guiding Light airs its final episode today, it won't just be the end of a remarkable television success story -- one that has endured on radio and TV for 72 years -- it will also lower the curtain on some of the most memorable characters ever. In the past 25 years that I've been watching
Guiding Light, I've had the pleasure of watching the likes of Michael Zaslow, Justin Deas,
Michelle Forbes and
Kim Zimmer portray some of those characters.
So, in honor of what
Guiding Light has achieved, the fabulous writers who have created these stories and characters, and in salute of all the wonderful actors who've brought them to life, here's
Guiding Light's 10 greatest characters from the past 25 years.
10. Josh Lewis (played by Robert Newman)
With the creation of Joshua, the Lewis family became a foundation in Springfield, as integral as the Bauers and the Spauldings, and Josh was the key. He started as a young, upstart oilman with a romantic streak and over time has morphed from a business tycoon to a minister. And through all the years, he's had one great love, Reva Shayne.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Guiding Light's greatest characters of the last 25 years
Posted Apr 3rd 2008 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Daytime, Reality-Free

On February 29, 2008,
a new era began for Guiding Light. Daytime television's longest running serial drama -- 71 years old this year -- burst out of the confines of a New York studio to begin shooting on location and on the fly in makeshift, portable sets and real places. The idea on paper was not only exciting, it seemed revolutionary. If they succeeded,
Guiding Light could truly be a "guiding light" to the rest of the soap industry.
Continue reading TV Squad Soap Report: The new Guiding Light is not working
Posted Feb 28th 2008 10:01AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Prison Break, In the Limelight

Mysterious. Mesmerizing. Interesting. Dynamic. Compelling. Any and all of these words accurately describe actress Michelle Forbes. She is one of the finest actresses in television, and yet she has maintained a distinct quality that makes her as elusive a performer to come around since Garbo! Intensely private, there's not much known about the Austin, Texas native. (However, I can tell you that she collects clocks -- broken clocks. As she told me, quoting the movie
Withnail and I, "Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.")
She's currently making HBO's new drama
In Treatment appointment TV, drawing her loyal following to find her latest work as she did in
24, Prison Break, Homicide and
Battlestar Galactica. And that doesn't even take into account the millions who first discovered this chameleon when she first burst onto the scene in
Guiding Light, and then
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Continue reading Michelle Forbes: In the Limelight