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Soap Opera Digest Magazine -- August 25, 2009
A Special Thank You to Chris from Germany for Sharing these Scans
CBS The Bold and the Beautiful
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May 2008 -- CBS Photos -- Eric
and Donna's Wedding
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Soap World -- April 2008
Nadal -- April 2008
The Queen
TV Guide -- Canadian Television In a rare interview, soaps’ best actor, and its most powerful star, Susan Flannery, reveals why she’s abdicating the throne. Plus: how she really feels about Brooke’s rape! In the soap world, the devil doesn’t wear Prada, she wears Forrester Creations. But not for long, angels. The soap opera apocalypse is officially upon us: four-time Daytime Emmy winner Susan Flannery is leaving her iconic role as Stephanie Forrester on the world’s most watched daily serial, The Bold and the Beautiful, sometime in the next couple of years to retire from acting. Highly considered the best actor on daytime TV, the Golden Globe winner’s exodus will no doubt leave an irreplaceable void not only on the CBS sudser, but also in the entire industry. As a B&B original cast member, the soap’s identity has been based around her seminal character, Stephanie’s psychosis and her legendary love-hate relationship with Brooke Logan. But alas, La Flannery has made up her mind —barring a miracle. The former Days of Our Lives star invited TVGuide.ca into her dressing room to go on the record about why she’s ready to move on and why she wasn’t happy with Stephanie’s involvement in Brooke’s rape last year in a rare and exclusive interview. TVGuide.ca: Are you really planning on retiring in a couple of years? Or is this just another great scheme of Stephanie’s? Susan Flannery: [laughs] Yes, I am retiring — and it’s going to be sooner rather than later. I haven’t set a date in my mind, but it’s not in the too-far distant future. TVG: No! So that sound we hear is Brad [Bell, B&B’s executive producer/head writer] constructing a dungeon chamber to keep you under his lock and key! SF: [laughs] I don’t know about that. You know, life is short and I had a great run. I’m not leaving in the next four to five months, but I am definitely headed towards leaving the show. TVG: My therapist is going love this. [sighs] If you had your druthers, how would you like to see Stephanie written out of the show? SF: You know, someone asked me that and all I can say is I would trust however Brad decided to write me out; however best he thinks my exit should play out. Brad’s the writer — and I have a lot of respect for him — so, I wouldn’t even think to suggest anything. TVG: Bradley is one of my all-time favourite writers, and I believe one of the most underrated head writers in daytime. I think his father, William Bell, would be extremely proud of him. SF: Oh, I agree completely. William would be so, so proud of him. TVG: I have to have a fan moment here for a second — my friends and I gather for Flannery nights at my house to review all your best acting moments. Your performances were the only thing keeping us from writing off your country during the past eight years. SF: [laughs] Let me guess, ‘pregnant dog, pregnant dog, slap, slap!’ TVG: You know your fans all too well. Did you know from an early age that you were destined to be an actor? Your talent feels God-given. SF: It sounds corny, but I always knew. I was very fortunate to have two wonderful parents who believed I could do anything that I wanted to. My father even said to me, ‘If you want to be the President of the United States, you can be the President of the United States.’ They were very liberating parents. The only requirement they expected of me was to go to college, which I did. After I graduated, I moved out here to the coast and began knocking on doors. You know I’ve been very fortunate to have been working my entire career and life. TVG: I’ve always wondered which actors you look up to. SF: Well, I have to tell you that I was absolutely thrilled when La Vie En Rose’s Marion Cotillard won the Best Actress Oscar. I saw the movie sometime last year when it was first released, and I remember turning to my friends to remark, ‘That’s the benchmark performance for an actress of her generation. That performance was untouchable in my opinion.’ Of course, I think Julie Christie is magnificent. She’s wonderful, but this was a once-in-a-lifetime performance. I was very disappointed that La Vie En Rose wasn’t nominated for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and cinematographer. Personally, I thought La Vie En Rose was the best movie of the year — and this is coming from a No Country for Old Men fan. TVG: I could perhaps accept your upcoming B&B departure, if you traversed back into the film world. Or are you retiring retiring from acting permanently? SF: If someone offered me a great role in a film, I’m sure I wouldn’t turn that down. But I don’t know if that will happen… TVG: Of course it could. You started out on the big screen and won a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1975 for The Towering Inferno. SF: Yes, I did. When I joined B&B, I gave Bill my word that I wouldn’t do anything else and I would stay with him. I’ve only moonlighted once — and that was for two episodes for my best girlfriend, Joanna Johnson [ex-Caroline, B&B], who created and produced Hope & Faith. You know, film is so wonderful… however, please don’t misunderstand, I love the intimacy of the TV camera, and I love the immediacy of TV… TVG: It’s like life. SF: It’s like life! But film is so beautiful. TVG: How did you feel about Stephanie being indirectly responsible for setting Brooke’s rape in motion? SF: [sighs] I was not happy about that. That was the only time I said to Brad, ‘I don’t think this is right,’ as far as Stephanie’s involvement. I said to him, ‘You can not have her directly responsible for setting this in motion, because the audience will never forgive Stephanie for hurting another woman.’ Moreover, Eric and Ridge would never forgive her. When they backed off, and made it that Stephanie inadvertently set the rape up, I mean, that was enough guilt that we could work with from an emotional perspective. TVG: Brooke and Stephanie are without a doubt B&B’s original and most popular super-couple. In fact, you guys are the heart and soul of the show. During the spectacular, award-worthy 5000th anniversary episode, when Brooke hugged Stephers and announced, ‘I love you, too,’ it was pretty orgasmic to watch, to be honest. Do you wish that Brooke and Stephanie teamed up more often, and perhaps flirted more with a friendship or, at the very least, an alliance? SF: The audience likes that. I think they love seeing Brooke being pulled in by Stephanie, them getting along and bonding — and then boom, the explosion happens all over again and they’re in battle yet again. TVG: I find the show uncharacteristically dark since writer Kay Alden joined the show. SF: [nods] Well, it has been dark but I think that happened after Darlene Conley died. Without Sally Spectra on the show, we have lost our humour. We’re sorely missing that camp element, which gave B&B a nice balance. TVG: Would you be friends in real life with either Brooke, Stephanie or both? SF: [laughs] I’d commit them both to an insane asylum! TVG: Y&R/B&B crossovers are all the rage again. I’m surprised that two of William Bell’s greatest character masterpieces, Victor Newman and Stephanie Forrester have never met, or done battle, or become allies. Now that I’d pay money to see! In a way, Stephanie is the female counterpart of the Dark Knight. SF: That’s true. I don’t suppose there is a natural story to be mined there; it has to be organic. Of course, you never know what’s up Brad’s sleeve! You know, what I always say to people is what a stroke of genius — William really was a genius — casting a German actor to play the main character on a daytime soap opera, a medium watched primarily by middle America! TVG: Bill loved ironic casting. Is Stephanie in danger of becoming a cardboard villain? SF: Yes, she is. I will be honest — I worry about that all the time, especially in the past couple of years. TVG: I think there’s far more exposition that’s needed in Stephanie’s childhood abuse storyline. I know Alley Mills [Pam] is back taping again heavily — are they revisiting that story more deeply? SF: I never ask Brad what he’s doing, but I must say that was a beautiful storyline. Especially 20 years later after this character was introduced. To reveal something as personal and painful as that, and what kind of impact it had on her as a human being, I was stunned. I thought it was great. TVG: And Stephanie abuses Brooke as a result. SF: Yes — she does abuse Brooke. TVG: It’s a shame they had to cast a little-known actress as your mom, Ann, huh? [laughs] SF: Oh, my — what a great gift! I love Betty White [Ann], and she’s so wonderful. TVG: You know, it’s interesting how Stephanie has evolved into the star player of the show because at first she wasn’t a front burner character — not until Brad took over the reins of the show. SF: I’m sure you know this because you’re a soap opera afficionado, but every soap needs a tent pole character that is capable of going in and out of all the storylines on the show. And it took a while to find the rhythm of the show, and once he locked into it, B&B took off like crazy and I played a much larger role on the show. I don’t think Bill realized when he cast me how big a role Stephanie would become. Joanna said that to me at one point, ‘I don’t think Bill realized Stephanie would be such a focal point when he created the show.’ TVG: What does Katherine Kelly Lang [Brooke] have to do to get an Emmy nomination? SF: Well, you know, I’ve spoken on her behalf publicly because I do believe she’s underrated. I don’t know what it’s going to take for us to turn that belief around. TVG: You must have been proud of her work during Brooke’s rape? SF: Oh, I’m impressed with her all the time. But yes, absolutely. So I have my fingers crossed for the 18th time for her! TVG: I’m sure you’ll be nominated again this year.
SF: You know what — I doubt it this
year. A Special Thank You to GraceBe for sharing this
Australia's Woman's Day Magazine B&B Susan's Aussie daughter
A Special Thank You to Nevin for sharing these scans March 03, 2008 Issue She's mistress of the angry slap, maestro of the meaningful stare. For 21 fabulous, sudsy years Susan Flannery has starred as stop-at-nothing Stephanie Douglas Forrester on super soap The Bold and the Beautiful. The multi-award-winning actress — four Daytime Emmys and a Golden Globe, plus many more nominations — is also a director, producer, licensed pilot, all-round adventurer, gourmet cook and mother-of-one. Her "sassy" daughter Blaise, 21, has lived in Australia for a little over two years with her boyfriend, who's a Sydney sportswriter. That's why 64-year-old Susan — whose melodramatic B&B adventures screen in more than 110 countries — recently flew Down Under for the first time. Thankfully, in real life she's nothing like strong-willed, manipulative matriarch Stephanie, as Woman's Day discovered on an exclusive visit with mother and daughter… How does your real life compare with The Bold and the Beautiful? (Chuckles) Not at all! I lead a dull, quiet life in Santa Barbara and I like it like that. And what about motherhood? Are you a tigress like Stephanie? Blaise is an only child, but she's a handful, more than enough! She fell into my life and for me she's been a gift from the gods. I'm here to enroll her at university in Sydney. I met her boyfriend's family the other day and they're lovely people but they're all psychologists — so I was very careful what I said. I didn't want to be analysed! Have you ever counted how many people you've slapped on the show? I think it would be such a great promo if they just did clips of all the slaps, and then I turned around and gave a wink to camera. I always tell new cast members, "Stay at arm's length; that's my best advice." They wait for the slap and look forward to it now. They call the writer and ask, "Is Stephanie going to slap me?" Sometimes it's not even in the script and I say, "Get over here for a slapping!" Is there anyone you itch to slap off screen? George Bush; I'd like to slap him silly, and Dick Cheney as well. They're two nincompoops. Thank God we won't have them any more after this election. I just hope they won't do anything terrible to the world before they go. Actually I am a Republican and have been one my whole life until Bush and Cheney. It's sad. Is there anything of your character in Stephanie? I like to think she's just a great creation between the writers and myself. She's a very typical American woman. No, honestly! A lot of American women are very strong and kind of controlling in a way, which Stephanie is. A lot of them are working, running a family business, taking care of the farm, things like that, and there's a strong "get on with it" mentality. That's a generalization, and all are false, but I do think Stephanie is a wholly American character. Are you controlling like Stephanie? I'm very decisive. I don't know if I'm bossy, but directing is very enjoyable to me. It's nice to see all the elements come together, and because I have acted with all the other actors in the show they trust me, which is nice. They know I will never do something that would injure their character or their performance for the sake of getting a shot. What's the worst thing Stephanie has ever done? I don't think the rape story was a great idea. Originally the writers had the idea that Stephanie deliberately placed Brooke in a position to be raped, and I said, "We can't do that, the audience would never forgive her." Also I didn't like the idea of making a victim out of Brooke because that's one of the great things about her — she has never been a victim. I thought it would damage both characters, so we changed the end of the story. It doesn't happen very often. If you could invent your own exit, what would it be? I wouldn't even begin to think about it, because William J. Bell, the creator, will come up with something inventive and great.
Susan Flannery in Australia -- February 2008
Susan's -- Sydney Interview 9am With David and Kim Website Good News Week Website -- includes Video Clips of SF Interviews
Thanks to Ute and GraceBe for sharing this info
Primo TVgids -- February
2008
A Fashion Extravaganza ...
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Special Thank You to GarbageFan98 for giving me permission to use this
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Helping out with style A handful of stars from the popular CBS daytime soap "The Bold and the Beautiful," together with local celebrities and dignitaries, will be on hand Saturday night at the Beau Rivage for a charity event/auction to benefit the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. Dubbed "A Fashion Extravaganza," the party features both live and silent auctions of the late Darlene Conley's show wardrobe, plus a host of other fashion and entertainment items. Conley, who died Jan. 14, 2007, was an internationally renowned daytime drama actress who portrayed the colorful, funny and tough dame with a heart of gold, "Sally Spectra," on "The Bold and the Beautiful." "The Bold and the Beautiful" cast members scheduled to attend include John McCook (Eric Forrester), Winsor Harmon (Thorne Forrester), Dan McVicar (Clarke Garrison) and Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester). "In addition to four of the 12 members of 'The Bold and the Beautiful' that are coming, we also have celebrity models...and a whole host of local celebrities," said Mary Cracchiolo-Spain, Beau Rivage director of public relations. "It's really about fun and fashion, and not strictly about 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' although the stars themselves will be there. The costumes from the show include everything from size 6 to 16. It's clothes that people can actually wear. Bidding will start out very cheap, $40 to $50 per item. So you can own a piece of Hollywood history for not very much money." Other auction items include memorabilia from CBS shows, as well as jewelry, including pieces by Deborah Kennedy Designs of Bay St. Louis, sunglasses, dresses, an autographed script and a private meet and greet with "The Bold and the Beautiful" actors on the set in California. "They fly you out to Los Angeles," said Cracchiolo-Spain. The fete will feature hors d'oeuvres, and entertainment by the Rochelle Harper Band. Nineteen models, including both local celebrity models and professional models, will showcase the auction items. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime event...and 100 percent of the proceeds are going to the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse," sa1id Cracchiolo-Spain. In a telephone interview with the Sun Herald, Winsor Harmon, who portrays Thorne Forrester on the show, said that, as a father, the charity event is "very close to my heart, and I wanted to get involved immediately... "We're going to meet and greet all the fans, and I think there's an autograph session. We're just going to be available (to) people who are coming in for the auction, and who are donating their money to this worthy, worthy cause," said Harmon, who grew up in New Orleans and Crowley, La., before moving to Texas. "...I told (my fellow cast members), 'Look, this is a different world. The South is a different place than where we live. People are really, really super friendly, and they're nice. If you're driving down the road, everyone waves at each other. It's a whole different environment. You guys are going to have a really great time, and you'll get to see where I'm from.' Tickets start at $75, and can be purchased by phone at (228) 868-8686 or visit mscpca.com. The silent auction begins 6 p.m. Saturday, and the fashion show, followed by a live auction, begins at 8 pm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you go: What: "A Fashion Extravaganza," a star-studded benefit to raise money for the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. When: Silent auction begins 6 p.m. Saturday. Fashion show, followed by a live auction, begins at 8 pm. Cost: Tickets start at $75, and can be purchased by phone at (228) 868-8686 or visit mscpca.com. Info: http://www.mscpca.com http://www.beaurivage.com http://www.boldandbeautiful.com It's A Star-Studded Gala! It's high fashion for a good cause! THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL'S John McCook (Eric), Susan Flannery (Stephanie), Winsor Harmon (Thorne), Daniel McVicar (Clarke) and other B&B stars will be present at A Fashion Extravaganza celebrating the life of the late Darlene Conley (Sally). The event is scheduled for Saturday, January 18, at the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino in Biloxi, Miss. The extravaganza will include a fashion show, cocktails and silent and live auctions featuring B&B memorabilia. All proceeds from the event will go to the Center For The Prevention Of Child Abuse. Visit www.mscpca.com or call (228) 868-8686 for tickets and reservations. http://cbs.soapsindepth.hollywood.com/latebreakingnews/
Soap Opera Weekly -- December 2007
Thanks to Steffi for sharing this Soap Opera Weekly -- December 2007
Thanks to
Courtney for sharing these scans The
Making of Hollywood Stars
An insightful and entertaining look at Susan Flannery's career
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Amazon.com Soap Opera Weekly -- November 2007
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CBS Soaps in Depth -- April 2007
Soap Opera Weekly -- March 2007
Thanks to Courtney for sharing these scans Soap Opera Digest -- March 2007
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TV Plus -- February 2007
Miscellaneous -- February 2007
Soap World -- February 2007
Miscellaneous B&B Kudos ... through the years
Soaps In Depth -- August 2006
Soap Opera Digest -- June 2006
Daytime Emmy Nomination -- 2006
Soap Opera Weekly -- May 2006
Soap Opera Digest -- November 2005
CBS Soaps In Depth -- September 2005
Soap World -- 2004
CBS Soaps in Depth -- January 2004
On The Town -- June 2002
Soap Opera Digest -- May 2002
Soap Opera Update -- July 2001
Daytime Emmys -- 2001
Daytime Divas -- 2008
Soap Opera Update -- August 2000
CBS Soaps in Depth -- June 2000
Soap Opera Update -- Daytime Emmys -- 2000
Soap Opera Weekly -- April 2000
Soap Opera Magazine -- October 1997
B&B Celebrates 10th Anniversary -- March 1997
At The Emmys -- 1995
Soap Opera Magazine -- June 1994
Miscellaneous Articles -- 1990's
B&B Celebrates 1st Anniversary -- March 1989
Soap Opera People -- February1989
Late 1980's
Soap Opera People -- October 1988
The Bold and the Beautiful --
1987 Promo
Original Cast Members
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