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Interview: 35 years of Y&R Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor): "I have installed Katherine’s sense of humor. I can cry only so many times. We’ve gotta laugh. Esther is usually my target, and so is Jill. My sense of humor is very accepted by the audience, which is a good thing. No one wants to be sad all the time." Eric Braeden (Victor Newman): "I came to America for adventure. I’d read a lot of things about the American West and cowboys and Indians. For a while, I was a cowboy in Montana. I got into acting early on. I grew up in hard times (with World War II and the British occupation), and my father died early on. I’ve always been into acting. I wanted an escape." Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Newman): "I don’t think she's really strong. She’s seemingly strong, but strong women make stronger decisions; they don’t get into compulsions. She has a lot of bravado, but she’s pretty weak. That’s what’s very interesting to play – underneath she’s damaged, but she’s a fighter." Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman): "Sometimes I just want to strangle Nikki – like when she worked for Victor’s competitor, and the times when she isn’t treating her children too nicely. She is a narcissist who needs attention." Vail Bloom (Heather Stevens): "Michael Graziadei is fun to play with. He brings comfort and casualness – he goes with the flow. It's a great working experience. In fact, it doesn’t even feel like work!" Adrienne Frantz (Amber Moore): "Jeanne Cooper and Jess Walton are so incredible. I learn so much from working with the daytime divas of the show. I just try to absorb from them. I’m like a sponge. They both are always so in the moment, and they give you things back to work off." Don Diamont (Brad Carlton): (On his early days on Y&R) "I had just been fired from ‘Days of Our Lives’ and voted Best Newcomer in the same week. At the time, I really embraced the ‘hunk status’ that soaps were focusing on, and just thought that hopefully I’ll prove myself as an actor and evolve beyond being the hunk by the pool. I was thrilled to get out of the tank tops and put on a suit." Ten actors who helped make GENERAL HOSPITAL shine The list includes Amber Tamblyn, Jonathan Jackson, Rena Sofer, Jack Wagner and more. Soap vet Constance Towers covers Kate Linder's Hollywood star ceremony "What an event it was," Connie raved, recalling the exciting sidewalk festivities. "Kate wore a great Navy pants suit with white cuffs and collar. She looked fabulous. 'Every inch a star,' as they say. She paid great tribute to the Bell family for her career and dedicated the star to Bill Bell [the late co-creator/head writer of Y&R and B&B] and Johnny Grant [the late honorary mayor of Hollywood]." In the VIP section, Connie met up with Lee Phillip Bell, widow of Bill Bell and co-creator of Y&R and B&B, and her actress daughter, Lauralee Bell, who had a long run playing Christine Blair on Y&R. "I stood with them," Connie reported. "It was fun to chat with Lee. She looked beautiful in a robin’s egg blue Chanel-type jacket. She is so lovely." Also on hand was the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, and other Y&R stars, including Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor), Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott), Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren Fenmore Baldwin), Y&R co-head writer Maria Bell, B&B executive producer Bradley Bell as well as Charlene Tilton (ex-Lucy Ewing, DALLAS), top designer Barbara Lazarus (the former wife of Wolfgang Puck, who designed Spago and all of his restaurants during their marriage) and another famous designer, Mr. Blackwell. Hit Indian soap opera pulled from Afghan TV An Afghan TV station said Sunday it had pulled a popular Indian soap opera, branded "un-Islamic" by conservative clerics, on the orders of the government which also wants several others banned. The show, named KUMKUM after the central character, is the first victim of a government order giving several stations until Tuesday to stop airing certain programmes it says undermine Afghan culture. The stations had ignored a previous government order against the shows -- all of which touch on love stories and disputes among Hindu families -- by mid-April. EASTENDERS chiefs axe Honey Mitchell EASTENDERS star Emma Barton has been axed by the soap's producers. The actress, who joined the BBC One show as Honey Mitchell in September 2005, will now depart later this year. Her on-screen husband Perry Fenwick (Billy) has been told that his job is safe. An insider told The Sun: "Emma's a lovely actress, but we've just come to the end of her storyline. Honey will go this summer."