Just a week after the Anderson Cooper vs. Lohan clan war over Ali Lohan, the youngest Lohan finds herself smack dab in the middle of another controversy and this time big sister Lindsay Lohan is coming to her defense.

In the latest issue of US Weekly, the magazine has an article about Ali's "overnight curves." After being caught on the street by photogs asking her  whether or not her younger sister had had a boob job an incensed Lindsay took to her Celebrity MySpace blog defending her sister.

It made me feel a bit sick to my stomach. My response simply was, 'Did you really just ask me that? She is a 14-year-old girl, and you are a pedophile!

All I am trying to say is that I was raised with a wonderful family surrounding me. Of course, we have our ups and downs, but all in all, my mother taught us to appreciate what we have been given. Nor would she ever encourage, or allow a 14-year-old child to alter her body. I am not judging people that do, but I am just saying that its not something that my family finds necessary to do, especially when you're not even fully developed yet!

Check out Lindsay Lohan's blog for the entire post.

One Life to Live scene stealer Ilene Kristen (Roxy) celebrates her Birthday today!  The soap vet (Ryan's Hope & Another World) turns 56 today. Happy Birthday Ilene!

Well, sort of. TeleNext Media Inc., in conjunction with Proctor and Gamble Productions, Inc., is making classic episodes of Another World, As The World Turns and Guiding Light available for viewing on Hulu.com.

According to Michael Fairman's new website, MichaelFairmanSoaps.com, 18 episodes of AW, ATWT and GL will air initially, followed by three additional episodes per week.

GL episodes starting with June 1, 2007 began airing July 25th. ATWT episodes from that same day will begin on July 28th, with AW episodes beginning with the May 10, 1991 showing will begin airing July 29th.

Six soap alum have received Primetime Emmy nomations in the major acting categories at this year's 60th Annual Emmy Awards. From left to right.

• Kyra Sedgwick, the star of TNT's The Closer and who once appeared on Another World was nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress category.
• Rainn Wilson, star of NBC's The Office and who once appeared on One Life to Live as Casey Keegan was nominated in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category.
• Holland Taylor, who stars on CBS's Two and a Half Men as Charlie Sheen's mother once starred on All My Children as Jill Ollinger. Taylor received a nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in Comedy Series category.
• Bryan Cranston, the star of HBO's In Treatment once appeared on One Life to Live as Dean Stella. Cranston received an Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series nomination.
• Mary-Lousie Parker, the star of Showtime's Weeds and who once appeared on Ryan's Hope received an Oustanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.
• Alec Baldwin, the star of NBC's 30 Rock and once appeared on The Doctors received an Oustanding Actor in a Comedy Series nomination.

Congrats to them all!

Be sure to check out The Young and the Restless today. According to TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco, Hogan Sheffer's first co-head writing efforts air today and are "amazing"!
 
In other Genoa City News, veteran producer Paul Rauch (Another World, Santa Barbara, One Life to Live, Guiding Light) has been brought on as an executive consultant, according to TV Guide's Michael Logan.
 
It appears CBS and the Bells are pulling out all the stops to restore daytime's once grandest treasure. First bringing on Sheffer, who revitalized As The World Turns, as co-head writer,  then hiring Thom Racina aka King of the 80's Supercouples to pen scripts and now bringing on one of the most successful producers in the genre's history to consult.

Rauch most notably helmed Another World during its unstoppable 1970's period of ratings domination, yet his tenure at Guiding Light proved controversial as he greenlit several over-the-top storylines ( i.e. Reva's cloning, San Cristobel). However it must be noted that those larger-than-life stories did result in ratings surges for the soap. Stay tuned folks!

Kyra Sedgwick's hit TNT show The Closer returns tonight and the former Another World alum is on the August cover of Redbook magazine. The Closer is one of my favorite summer series and I can't wait for it and Saving Grace to return tonight.

In other The Closer news former General Hospital and Guiding Light star Stephen Martines will be making a guest appearance on the show.

People is reporting that former Another World star Anne Heche is up a tree...er creek, now that her ABC show Men In Trees has been canceled. Heche told a judge that she can no longer pay the $15,000 a month in child support she was paying while starring in Men in Trees. This is what she wrote in cour papers.

I am continuing to look for work, but I have no offers pending and the impending strike by the Screen Actors Guild reduces my prospects for work even further...Since January 18, 2008, I have been unemployed and had no income from employment except for one very short-term contract for a movie role for which I received a total of $65,000, approximately the amount I received for one episode of Men In Trees." 

Fun fact: Anne Heche is the all time favorite soap star of Daytime Confidential's Jamey.

You Tube is so addictive. After looking at clip after clip of the late great Beverlee McKinsey's work, I decided to look up another one of my favorite blonde P&G powerhouses, Anne Heche, whose ABC series Men In Trees has been canceled.

Heche was the second actress to portray Another World's wonder twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love, and although I loved all three actresses who held the parts, Heche is by far my favorite. In fact as I mentioned in the earlier post, she is my favorite daytime actress, period. I went in mourning after she left the show in 91 and it took her replacement Jensen Buchanan a good year before she won me over and boy did she ever (Will someone get Jensen back to daytime already?) but Anne will always be "my" Vicky and Marley.

The "Who Shot Jake" storyline is right up there with the culmination of "Is Gina Hope?" on Days of Our Lives as my all time favorite storylines ever. This clip shows Heche's Vicky at her ferocious best, attacking her mother Donna (Luke's best girl Anna Stuart, ex-Mary, All My Children) after learning she had cheated on Vicky and Marley's father Michael with Jake McKinnon, the bad boy who had already made a sport of bedding both twins. Long before the Logans and Forresters over at Bold and the Beautiful, Donna and her daughters put the diss in dysfunctional and this clip proves it.

Giving the Devil his due. In honor of Beverlee McKinsey’s memory I searched through countless You Tube clips to find one that best summarized her tremendous strength as an actress. This clip is famous for Guiding Light fans, as it is where Springfield's grand dame Alexandra Spaulding makes a mockery of her cheating, thieving husband Roger Thorpe played with equal brilliance by the late Michael Zaslow. Alex also makes amends to her loved ones for believing in Roger over them. 

The clip is almost painful to watch as it evokes memories of Guiding Light and the daytime soap opera at its best. One thing that amazes me is that most of the actors in this storyline, Alex, Roger, Fletcher (Jay Hammer), Holly (Maureen Garrett), Vanessa (Maeve Kinkead), Ross (Jerry ver Dorn), Henry (William Roerick, Ed (Peter Simon) and Maureen (Ellen Parker) were over 40. 

 The few younger actors involved, a fresh-faced Rick Hearst as Alex’s nephew Alan Michael, the vivacious Kimberley Simms as Mindy Sue Lewis, the girl Alex loved like a daughter before she found out she was sleeping with her nefarious husband and a pre-ER Sherry Stringfield as Roger’s equally venomous daughter Blake Thorpe, benefitted from sharing scenes with such legends of soap and stage. Wouldn't it be great it soap execs today took a page from soaps gone by, instead of trying to rip off Laguna Beach?

Veteran soap scribe Tom Casiello remembered daytime legend Beverlee McKinsey (ex-iris, Another World/Texas; ex-Alexandra, Guiding Light; ex-Myrna, General Hospital) on his popular My Space blog today. Casiello achieved quite a metaphor by comparing McKinsey's "quiet dignity" and pride in her work with a daytime on yesteryear. It's a must read for fans of the late Ms. McKinsey's work and of the golden age of soaps.  Click here for more.