Harding Lemay

Another quote from Harding Lemay's fantastic memoir Eight Years in Another World: "Back in New York, 'Another World' had been solidly number one in the soap opera ratings for over a month. . .The story of Iris's bugging Eliot's hotel suite had been aired at the same time news broadcasts revealed that the President had secretly taped conversations in the Oval Office. That, of course, was a coincidence; I had invented the bugging incident months before. The plot reverberations set off by the disclosure of Iris's tapes continued along with the mounting furor created by the President's. The Wall Street Journal ran a column in which the two stories were compared in detail and concluded that the invented one was more complicated and far better acted than the actual one."

And a quote that makes me really wish Lemay's episodes were available to watch now: "I longed to explore the attachments between more mature men and women. . . romances between younger characters gave way to the saltier, more skeptical courtship of a couple well past the first blush of youth."