These ranged from minor details like AMC’s Chuck being identified as both Charles’s son and his wife Phoebe’s grandson, to the more troubling mislabeling of OLTL’s Ed, played by African-American actor Al Freeman Jr., as white and claiming his kiss with Carla (Ellen Holly), who once tried to pass as white, was the first interracial one on television.
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But the biggest error is that a book subtitled How I Became The Queen Of Soaps When Men Ruled The Airwaves, features so little of precisely that.
Nixon mentions creating Search For Tomorrow, then being replaced as Executive Producer before the show aired, as well as selling All My Children to CBS, only to have them renege on the deal for business reasons. But, hey, that’s showbiz!
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