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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 252665" data-attributes="member: 27">That is one eye-opening book, even after 40 years of changes in the soap business.  I recall Lemay commenting on how both Dwyer and Courtney could not memorize their lines properly, so when they expanded to an hour, he and Paul Rauch got Virginia Dwyer fired, arguing that if she could not memorize her lines for a half-hour show, she certainly would not be able to do it for an hour-long show!  As for Courtney, the stories of her writing her lines on props and on her shirt-cuffs still make me picture her like Carol Burnett's character in the As The Stomach Turns sketches.  She and Reinholt may have been immensely popular, but Lemay and Rauch were right to give them their walking papers.I wish others in the soap biz would have the guts to write such tell-alls, if not just to set the record(s) straight.</blockquote>