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Star of the Week

Kathy Brier

ON SOAP OPERA DIGEST AND WEEKLY ONLINE

Interviews

Interviews Featuring Kathy

— ABC

OLTL Stripped

Sure the guys of ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Love Crew have agreed to strip to raise money for the community center, but they're in for a surprise this week when they learn that the audience is expecting full nudity. MORE

Interviews About Kathy

— ABC

Brier & Marston on Playing Parents

It's hard enough for the stars of ONE LIFE TO LIVE to crank out an episode a day, but throw a set of twin toddlers into a front-burner storyline and things can get downright dicey — or at least challenging. MORE

Interviews With Kathy/Marcie

— ABC

M&M's One Lifehouse To Live

A little Ultraviolet light and the right musical accompaniment from pop-rock trio Lifehouse set the mood on Feb. 15, 2006 for a long-awaited moment for ONE LIFE TO LIVE fans: Michael McBain proposing to Marcie Walsh. MORE

— ABC

A Labor Of Love

After two long years of hard work, Kathy Brier's (Marcie) debut CD, Heartbreaker, is finally finished. The actress took a few minutes out of her hectic schedule ramping up PR for the project, planning live performances and, of course, acting on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, to talk to Digest about the project. MORE

— ABC

Kathy Brier Talks Story

Marcal fans may not have gotten enough of Marcie and Michael this summer, but Kathy Brier did get to dabble in several different stories as Marcie. Here she talks about those stories, plus the ones she'd like to see. MORE

— ABC

OLTL's Marcie: Moving on with Michael

Michael Malone, Kathy Brier and Nathaniel Marston weigh in on M&M's future. MORE

— Steve Fenn/ABC

Marcie, Marcie, Marcie!

Forget all those rail-thin model-types, the hottest new star in ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Llanview is the effervescent Kathy Brier (Marcie). MORE

— ABC

Kathy Brier: I'm Not a Mother, but I Play One on TV

ONE LIFE TO LIFE's Kathy Brier has been playing Marcie-on-the-run for the past several months. Exhausting? You bet, but she's loving every minute of it. MORE

Interviews Mentioning Kathy

— Heidi Gutman/ABC

Choreographer To The Soap Stars

Behind every great soap are the people who toil to pull everything together — costumes, lighting, set design, sound, etc. But rarely do we think of the choreographer as one of those indispensable roles. Meet soaps' go-to guy for dance, Director/Choreographer James Horvath. MORE

— Ron Riccio/Walt Disney World

Making Disney Magic With Kassie DePaiva

One of the perks of covering ONE LIFE TO LIVE for Soap Opera Digest is interviewing Kassie DePaiva (Blair), who is always gracious, sweet and has plenty to say. But at the recent Super Soap Weekend in Orlando, FL, DePaiva decided that for her 15-minute Q&A before the OLTL motorcade, she would be the interviewer since we've chatted her up so many times on the 12-year running Super Soap. MORE

— ABC

OLTL Rocks the Casaubon

In this Q&A, ONE LIFE TO LIVE's new assistant district attorney, Josh Casaubon, proves it's nice to meet Hugh. MORE

— CBS

American Psycho

Greg Rikaart relishes being Y&R's Most-Hated man
As seen in the Mar. 23, 2004 issue of Soap Opera Digest. MORE

— Sue Coflin

Getting To Know Renee Elise Goldsberry

On February 25, Renee Elise Goldsberry debuted in the recurring role of Mitch's feisty lawyer, Evangeline Williamson, on OLTL. A few months later, Goldsberry was put on-contract, and Evangeline was paired with Llanview's unpredictable bad boy, R.J. MORE

Features

Features Featuring Kathy

— Sue Coflin

Soap Songbirds

Promo Teaser: They certainly are a tuneful bunch in Llanview. Nearly everyone on the OLTL roster has some kind of musical talent, and many were showcased on the One Life, Many Voices CD to help raise money for hurricane relief. Here's a rundown of OLTL's multiple musical masters. MORE

— Chris Garlington

Reporter's Notebook

There wasn't a dull moment at the 11th Annual ABC SUPER SOAP WEEKEND, held at Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. Throughout the event, the actors were subjected to press conferences, where members of the mainstream and soap media grilled the stars on hard-hitting topics. MORE

Features About Kathy

— Donna Svennevik

Building OLTL's Blushing Bride

Marcie Walsh was every inch the blushing bride when she married Dr. Michael McBain on the May 5 episode of ONE LIFE TO LIVE. MORE

Features Mentioning Kathy

— ABC

OLTL: Let's Put On a Show

OLTL's show-within-a-show, Prom Night: The Musical, begins airing June 15. Consequently, the teen actors — Kristen Alderson (Starr), Brittany Underwood (Langston), Portia Reiners (Brittany), Brandon Buddy (Cole) and Jason Tam (Makko) — are busy learning songs and rehearsing production numbers. MORE

— ABC

OLTL's Prom Night: The Musical

It was quite a warm and fuzzy family affair on June 8, when the press (including me!) was invited to the ONE LIFE TO LIVE studio to screen several numbers from the soap's much-hyped production, Prom Night: The Musical. MORE

— ABC

10 Lessons of Llanview's Tornado

It’s tornado season and sweeps season on ONE LIFE TO LIVE, so as Llanview's residents deal with the stormy aftermath, here are the big lessons viewers learned from the terrible twister of 2006. MORE

Soap Songs Archive

Soap Opera Digest's "Sing Along" column has been around for a decade, and we still get dozens of letters and e-mails with requests every week. Now, for the first time ever, we're giving you a chance to take a peek into our archives MORE

— Sue Coflin

ONE LIFE Fan Lovefest

On Aug. 21 the ONE LIFE TO LIVE cast and the show's fans gathered at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City for the annual fan club lunch. The event was one of the liveliest ever. MORE

— ABC

Back To Llanview

Our first ONE LIFE TO LIVE set Chat was so popular, we returned to Llanview to talk with your favorite stars a second time. MORE

Photo Galleries

Photo Galleries With Kathy

— Heidi Gutman/ABC

Broadway Babies

On February 6, the stars of ABC Daytime came out at night for a very special cause: a fund-raising musical revue to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Couldn't make it to the legendary New Amsterdam Theatre? Here's the scoop on what you missed. MORE

Photo Galleries Mentioning Marcie

— Steve Fenn/ABC

Unmasked!

Forget Halloween. In Llanview, wearing costumes is a year-round deal. Here are some of OLTL's memorable "dress-up" moments. MORE

— ABC

Teen Dreams

Ah, young love. When you're still a kid, it's easy to think that romance is all you need to get by in the world. Here, in honor of all those children who have returned to school, we revisit some of ONE LIFE TO LIVE's teen couples — and the bumps in the road that made them realize that love doesn't always last forever. MORE

Kathy Brier's Awards

 

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