DC Podcast: Nelson Branco's Emmy Predictions

1 On today's Daytime Confidential Podcast, TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco joins Luke and Jamey as they make their predictions on who will take home the Emmy at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday. Picks are made for who should win and who will win from Outstanding Show, Writing, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Younger Actor and Younger Actress. Nelson reveals which episodes the stars submitted and who had strongest episodes and who's episodes didn't even compete. Check back here later this week for full list of all the expert's Emmy picks.

Producer Robert Calhoun dies at 77

Robert Calhoun, best known to soap fans for his runs as Executive Producer at AS THE WORLD TURNS and GUIDING LIGHT has passed away. He died of lung cancer in New York on May 24th at age 77. Calhoun won a 1987 Daytime Emmy Award for producing AS THE WORLD TURNS and was nominated for five more Emmys as a producer and two as a director. Calhoun's work over the years ranged from helping to launch the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles to translating Italian film scripts into English while working in Italy in the early 1970s. Calhoun was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated from the U. of Maryland, after serving three years in the U.S. Navy. His early work in the theater included a stint as production supervisor for Eva Le Gallienne's National Repertory Theater, during productions of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," where he met his lifelong partner, the actor Farley Granger, in 1963. Calhoun subsequently moved to Southern California, where he worked on early productions at the Mark Taper Forum. In 1970, Calhoun moved to Italy with Granger, and spent several years living in Rome. He went back in the mid-1970s to Southern California and the Mark Taper, where he directed plays for the New Theater for Now program. After a few years, he returned to New York to work in daytime television. Calhoun was co-author of Granger's memoir, "Include Me Out," which was published in 2007. He is survived by Granger, two brothers and a sister. 1 This photo shows Farley Granger, left, and companion Robert Calhoun and dogs Luke and Molly in Rome in 1972.

Soap Stars at Tony Awards

Laura Bell Bundy (GUIDING LIGHT), Laurence Fishburne (ONE LIFE TO LIVE) and Marisa Tomei (AS THE WORLD TURNS) were among the former soap stars on hand for last night's Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall celebrating the best in Broadway. "In the Heights" won as top musical, "August: Osage County" for best play and "South Pacific" for best revival. 1

Leven Rambin Leaves NYC For L.A. For Role On Fox’s TERMINATOR

1 Recently departed ALL MY CHILDREN star Leven Rambin will be leaving NYC this Thursday for the city of angels for several months to work on TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, which is in its second season and will premiere on Monday, September 8th. She will be playing Reilly, a young new friend who is quick-witted and quick on her feet (and has interactions with the famed character John Connor, of course). Rambin plans on dividing her time between the coasts and will be coming back to NYC for a farewell bash soon: "I need to have a proper send of to the land of the lucid, laland, Terminatorville!!"