THE BAY - Confessions of the Garretts, pt. 3

This 3rd Confession is from Sara Garrett (Mary Beth Evans). She talks more about Steve Jensen (Matthew Ashford) and how he has tormented her over the years, including nearly killing her son, Brian (Dylan Bruce). Aside from that, she describes how she was forced to stay on a yacht by an obsessed filmmaker and was rescued by an Italian painter named Arturo Tonelli (Matthew Borlenghi). Sara proves she is no docile victim when she "confesses" that she faked the kidnapping of daughter Marly (Martha Madison) in order to win her husband back from Janice (Lilly Melgar). Staples of the soap genre such as mistaken identity, amnesia and faked kidnappings are all showing up as well.

Mary Beth Evans is no stranger to over-the-top soap opera storylines...so as she describes one crazy twist after another, somehow she makes it entirely believable that Sara Garrett is simply a woman who has lived an extraordinary life.

Daphnee Duplaix opens with ALL AMERICAN GIRLS

Posted by Playbill.com

All-American Girls, which is billed as "the untold story of the all-Negro female baseball team in 1945 Chicago," officially opens Aug. 25 following previews that began Aug. 4 at the Actors Temple Theatre.

Penned by Layon Gray, the production runs in repertory with Gray's Black Angels Over Tuskegee.

The cast of All-American Girls features "One Life to Live" star Daphnee Duplaix and model Mari White as well as Setor Attipoe, Yasha Jackson, Ashley Jeffrey, Arlene McGruder, Chantal Nchako, Catherine Peoples and Antoinette Robertson.

Stuart Damon on ATWT

Stuart Damon will be appearing one last time as mobster "Uncle Ralph" on As The World Turns this week.

VENICE second season preview clip

The time for the second season of Venice is getting closer at hand with this nice high-resolution teaser clip on YouTube. So with Shawn Christian and Peter Reckell added to the mix, I can't decide if Venice is looking more like Days of Our Lives or if Days of Our Lives is looking more like Venice.

THE BAY - Confessions of the Garretts, pt. 2

This second BAY confession is from Brian Garrett Nelson (Dylan Bruce). I admit with this confession I had to listen to twice and make notes of who all was who...and then I had to go to the cast list and look up the actors so I could get better visual ideas of what was all going on with everyone. It took me a little more work to keep up with this one.

Can I say that I adore the intro music already? It has a nice dramatic urgency to it that screams serious angst to come. Love it!

We learn more from Brian about Sara Garrett (Mary Beth Evans), Steve Jensen (Matthew Ashford), Zoey Johnson (Taylor Stanley), Marly Nelson-Foster (Martha Madison), Frankie Ramos (Diego Serrano), Pete Garrett (Kristos Andrews), Tony Foster (Gavin Houston) and Janice Ramos (Lilly Melgar).

Check out the link for THE BAY - Confessions of the Garretts, pt 2.

Jackie Zeman and Lesli Kay join THE BAY

As per THE BAY's webpage:

"We'd like to welcome two lovely soap veterans to the cast of THE BAY. Lesli Kay (Felicia THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL, Molly AS THE WORLD TURNS, Lois GENERAL HOSPITAL) will make her appearance in the 7th Chapter in the role of Belinda Madison, the money hungry daughter of Mayor Jack Madison (Nicolas Coster). Jacklyn Zeman (best known to daytime for her role as Bobbie Spencer) will also be joining the cast for the season finale. Details on her character TBA.

We excitedly welcome both actresses to the canvas."

Kim Zimmer to OLTL

As reported by SOAP OPERA DIGEST:

"Soap Opera Digest can report exclusively that former GUIDING LIGHT star Kim Zimmer (ex-Reva) will return to daytime this fall to reprise the role of Echo DiSavoy on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, which she last played in October 1983. "I'm so excited," Zimmer raves. "I feel like it's all come full circle." Echo was actually her second role on the show; she started out as Bonnie Harmer in 1978, then went on to play Nola on THE DOCTORS, and returned to OLTL to create troublemaker Echo in 1983. "And then they fired me!" she laughs. "She was asked to leave town, and it was the best thing that could have happened to everyone involved. I went to GUIDING LIGHT and had a wonderful 27 years there and now I'm happy to be back at ONE LIFE. And so I'm very grateful to [Executive Producer] Frank [Valentini] for making the phone call."

Echo will first resurface on October 1, and will be in big story with Clint (Jerry verDorn), Viki (Erika Slezak) and Dorian (Robin Strasser), as well as others."