By special request we will go back in time right now so I can talk about my days working in the "industry" and all of that stuff.
I mentioned I moved to Los Angeles to do an internship at The Young and the Restless. I had also interviewed in New York for internships on Another World and All My Children. When Y&R offered me the internship I knew it was the one I wanted. Not only are they the number one rated soap opera but also living in California would be cheaper then living in New York. Okay not by much but cheaper is cheaper. Plus there was the whole idea of it being sunny and not having to deal with snow plus beaches and just so many celebs. Now my mom and I drove to Los Angeles so I could take the stuff I would need to live there for at least 10 weeks since that is how long the internship was for. After she left though I was so completely homesick is was disgusting. I just wanted to go home! However that Monday I get to the studio and it was everything I hoped it would be and more. An intern is mostly grunt work but I loved every minute of it. Meeting the actors, watching them tape the scenes, getting to sit in the booth and watch the director work. It was just magical to me. By and large the actors on the show were just great. The only one I can honestly say I dislike with a passion is Eric Braeden. He is a pompous jerk!
But I did have my favorites and they were/are Michelle Stafford, Peter Bergman, Jeanne Cooper, J. Eddie Peck and Eddie Cibrian. They were all very sweet and would just spend time talking to me and making me feel so welcome there. When Peter Bergman heard about a problem I had with Eric Braeden he had me sit down in his dressing room and he told me about the time he and Eric got into it. He wanted me to know that Eric does this to lots of people, not just interns. How nice is that? For an actor to take the time to make an intern feel better.
While I was doing my internship an Associate Producer saw me working and asked if I would be interested in a job on a new primetime comedy she was going to be working on. She had me come in for an interview and hired me to start immediately after I was done with the internship. Matter of fact there was a small glitch with when I would start. I had one week left on my internship and that was the week she wanted me to start at her show. Well I only worked two days a week on the internship, mondays and thursdays. Well the AP called my boss at Y&R and they worked out a deal, I did my internship on monday and tuesday that week and on wednesday I started my new job on a show called Local Heroes.
Local Heroes was only ordered to make 6 episodes and only one actually aired, it was that bad. I learned a lot and the big thing was I wanted to go back to working on soap operas. I felt they wasted so much time on the comedy. It took one week for them to make one half hour episode, while on a soap opera they tape an episode a day.
After Local Heroes I ended up working at Universal Studios, in the theme park, and that is where I met my David. After we were married and because of something else that had happened, which I will probably save for another post, I quit working there. Next up was working on Sunset Beach. I loved it, back on a soap opera and best of all one of the producers was from Y&R and one of the actors was Eddie Cibrian so I already knew two people when I got there. Sadly though it was canceled just over a year after I started there, but it was great while it lasted. Then I had interviewed at ABC to work on General Hospital but sadly that was when Disney bought ABC and they put a hiring freeze. I would have loved working on GH since I have watched it off and on for years!
Not much longer after that we decided to move back to my hometown and see if David would like living in a small town in the midwest as opposed to a big city like Los Angeles. And thus ended my life of working in the tv industry. I may not have gone as far as I wanted but at least I can always say I did do it, I did get to live out that dream. Even if it didn't go as far as I hoped!
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