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Thoughts on the week of September 14-18.

This is my final blog for Guiding Light . It's been an extremely sad few days since the show ended. There will be something very strange about not sitting down at my desk to furiously type the daily recap as I watch the show each day. To those who have read my recaps and thoughts over the past three years, I want to send a humble thank you. The... » Read More

Guiding Light 's Ron Raines (Alan Spaulding) and Tina Sloan (Lillian Raines) were at CBS' "The Early Show" today to give a little interview. They reminisce and talk about how much the fans have meant to them over the years.

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With the turn of the century, Guiding Light split away from centering itself in Springfield and substantially changed the focus of the entire series. Springfield was invaded by the Santos crime family and a baroque tale of battles for the throne and international intrigue dominated life on the distant island of San Cristobel.



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Here is a special video preview of the final episode including a touching behind the scenes look at the final day of shooting.



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Just in case you ever wanted to see how some of the location sets connect to each other, here is Guiding Light 's Lawrence Saint Victor (Remy Boudreau) giving a special tour of the show house in Peapack.



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Join Guiding Light 's Frank Dicopoulos (Frank Cooper), Kurt McKinney (Matt Reardon), Daniel Cosgrove (Bill Lewis), Zack Conroy (James Spaulding), Lawrence Saint-Victor (Remy Boudreau) and Karla Mosley (Christina Boudreau) in Pittsburgh on October 1 to lend your support to the fight against breast cancer. The actors will be appearing at the Go Pink With Panera event being held to benefit the Young Women's Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation.
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The 1990s opened with Reva killing herself and Guiding Light swiftly changed style. The first half of the decade marked a return to more realistic and slightly more subdued storytelling, going out of its way to avoid the tendencies which marked the years of Pamela Long and Reva. With Roger Thorpe back in the fold, the series concentrated more on the Spaulding and Cooper families, expanding both of them again, and even bringing Meta Bauer back... » Read More

Original Article: August 13

Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan Randall) and his friends in the Apothecary Theatre Company will be giving a special performance this October. The event will be given to raise funds for the troupe to make a down payment on a production space. This year's event will be given on the same day as the Official Fan Club Luncheon on Saturday October 10, 2009. It will include a staged reading of a play featuring Pelphrey... » Read More

In the 1980s, Guiding Light underwent more major changes, though, strategically, the shifts were largely the same. The Dobsons left as head writers and Douglas Marland was brought in. The focus jumped again to introducing the younger characters on the show, displacing many of the more established ones, and creating more complex plots. Marland introduced the Chamberlain and the Lewis families among others.


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If seeing his brief cameo on Guiding Light wasn't enough for you, here's your chance to catch Y&R 's Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin) as he goes behind the scenes to document his appearance on the show. You can see him hanging out with Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne) and Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor), joking around with Justin Deas (Buzz Cooper) about kissing Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer) and talking about what an honor it was to be... » Read More