Q. Harley, I see you're still getting settled here in California. When do you expect to get some forniture?
A. I don't. I left everything back in New York and I find I'm living pretty well without things. I did buy a TV and VCR, as you can see. I don't have a stereo yet, so to listen to music, I go out and sit in my car.
Q. Yes. Well, enough about interior decorating. What our readersare hoping for is some nitty-gritty, some glamor, some dirt. Like, do you have any illegitimate children and does Lane Davies(Mason Capwell) kiss well and where did you really get that name?
A. O.K.
Q. To begin. Harley, for the longest time, you've been playing the oldest virgin in daytime. How does that feel?
A. It's all relative, really. A year ago, Mary was living in a convent, wearing a habit, calling home to Mother Superior. Compared to that, life today is pretty racy.
Q. You went from playing a popular character on a popular show to playing a nun on a low-rated show. How did they talk you into that?
A. One had nothing to do with the other. I left GL because I'd been doing it for two years and it was beginning to feel like a job. SB didn't come into the picture till a week later and I took the part because it seemed like an adventurous thing to do. I liked that it was a new show. There was some great acting on it. And besides that, I was being evicted from my apartment in New York. I had to move anyway so I figured, why not move to California?
Q. Do you miss New York?
A. Yes. Painfully.
Q. What do you like about California?
A. My car. The Pacific Coast Highway. Mexican food.
Q. What's the biggest difference between California soaps and New York soaps, in your experience?
A. Dressing rooms. On GL, Kim Zimmer(Reva) and I shared a dressing room the size of a bread box. We always meant to clean out the remains of the 43 previous actors who inhabited it, but we never got out around to it-possibly out of fear of finding the corpse of alan Spaulding underneath it all. On SB, the dressing rooms are big enough for a family of three, with separate baths and, if you play your cards right, TVs, phones, refrigerators.... Q.Since you left GL, its ratings have dropped and SB's ratings have risen. Do you feel personally responsible for this? A. No. There's an enormous amount of talent on the show. Q. Don't you evere get tired of wearing dowdy clothes and playing goody two shoes characters?
A. Brette Wheeler(Texas) never wore dowdy clothes. And just because my character are generally morally upright people, what doesn't mean they don't get to be psychic, adulterous, hallucinatory, deceitful, violent and have as many erotic dreams as the next guy. Q.You have played several story lines dealing with the supernatural. How about you? Are you psychic? A. I knew you were going to ask that question. Q. What else do you know about me? A. I feel you are the youngest of....eight children. You had a very happy childhood. You were born in Pennsylvania, but you grew up on a farm in...Kansas. Q. Nebraska. A. Whatever. Q. Amazing. Now, Harley, let's get personal. Did you really have an affair with Kin Shriner( ex-Scotty, GH), as reported in the press? A. That's a pretty tacky question.
Q. That's my job. A. Look, I have to say something for my memoirs. However, I'll say this: Kin Shriner taught me three when I came to L.A. One, how to get to Disneyland: two, how to break into a house using a credit card; and three, that every experience in life is a potential half-baked idea for a screenplay. And for this, I'll always love him. Q. Are you sleeping with anyone now? A. I've learned never to answer that question, not only in the interest of good taste, but because by the time the article is printed, all such situations can and usually do change. Q. Do you keep in touch with any of your old soap friends? A.Sure. I hang out a lot with Carolyn Ann Clark(ex-Lesley Ann Monroe) and Michael Woods(ex-Jim Reardon) and every few months I'll run into Marsha Clark (ex-Hillary Bauer), Grant Aleksander(ex-Philip Spaulding), Phil MacGregor(ex-Frederick Bauer), Kim Morgan Green(ex-Nicole Love, AW), Lee Lawson(ex-Bea Reardon), Vincent Irizaryr(ex-Lujack) and of course, Robert Newman(ex-Josh Lewis). Q. What do you spend your money on? A. I have a wonderful house in the nirth woods of Minnesota on a lake, with seven acres of land. I have a piano in New York that lives with my cousin Bobby, a car in the carage, and I eat a lot of sushi and rent a lot of movies and that pretty moch takes care of it.
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