Hillary B. Smith Representing 'A Million Happy Nows' in Harrisburg's Walk to End Alzheimer's

The annual Walk to End Alzheimer's will take place in Harrisburg on Saturday, September 20 on City Island. The event raises awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research.

Actress and producer Hillary B. Smith, who starred for over 20 years as Nora Buchanan on One Life to Live after a successful run as Margo Hughes in As the Worlds, will be in Harrisburg, serving as captain of team "A Million Happy Nows." The team is named for a film that she is acting in and producing with Crystal Chappell.

In A Million Happy Nows, veteran actress Lainey Allen (Chappell) is tired of being sidelined for younger talent on the soap she has starred in for twenty years. Coupled with finding it harder to retain her lines, she decides not to renew her contract, and she and her publicist and partner, Eva Morales (Jessica Leccia), move to their weekend house overlooking the ocean on the Central California coast. The move highlights some small changes in Lainey’s personality – mild depression that Eva puts down to leaving the show. But when Lainey starts to forget more than can be attributed to stress, Eva insists on a visit to the doctor.

Remembering Michael Zaslow as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Sweeps the Nation

Michael Zaslow
Photo Credit: Jessica Burstein/NBC/NBCU

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've undoubtedly seen The Ice Bucket Challenge, the latest viral meme, splash across social media pages. It's all over TV news, newspapers and magazines.

Everyone from your next door neighbor to Oprah Winfrey is being showered with cold water and ice in an effort to raise awareness about ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or as it's also known, Lou Gehrig's disease).

It's also raising money -- as of today, over $40 million has been raised. (The ALS Association usually raises less than a tenth of that in an entire year.)

I'm really glad that ALS is getting some well-deserved attention and awareness. But for many of us soap fans, the person who shone a spotlight on ALS, and its horrible impacts, was the late Michael Zaslow.

For those that may not know him or his work, Zaslow was a New York based actor, and for many of us, he was Roger Thorpe, Guiding Light's most memorable villain, a man both dastardly and dashing. Roger was a passionate fighter, but his tormented relationship with ex-wife Holly, a woman he'd raped while they were married, was as much a battle of intellect as it was of heart.