DO YOU WANT TO GIVE AN HAPPY ENDING TO EDEN AND CRUZ? TODAY YOU CAN DO IT. FIND OUT HOW…

Before leaving for the holidays, I have a pleasure to ask you all. This will take less than a minute of your time. The site WE LOVE SOAPS will announce in the coming days the ranking of the 50 Greatest Soap Couples of all time. Each of us has his favorite SB couple; mine for example are Gina & Keith and Lionel & Augusta, but if we really want to see a SB couple in the first place of the rankings, I think that we should somehow vote for Eden & Cruz . This is without a doubt the Queen-Couple of SB. And then I think we must make our voices heard: copy this E&C pic or go to google and choose your favorite pic of them, then go to this link and post the pic on the bulletin board of the WE LOVE SOAPS facebook page. We can put Eden and Cruz at the first place. But we must be united. If Eden and Cruz win, we can finally give them the happy ending that they did not have on the show. I think they deserve it. Please, make me happy. I ask for less than a minute of your time. Many of you have already done it. Look ... Thank you very much.

Justin Gocke A Hollywood Success At 13

from "Sun Sentinel" - October 4, 1991

It`s a hot Thursday afternoon. Waiting at New York City`s famed Rosie O`Grady`s Irish restaurant, a redheaded, pint-sized soap star is noticed, five minutes early. He walks up to the table, introduces himself, then sits down and orders a soda. His name is Justin Gocke, and if you don`t recognize him now, you will. Not only is he a soap star, but he`s going to be a movie star. And he has only just become a teen-ager.

Justin, at age 13, has gotten farther in his acting career than most actors go in a lifetime. Working steadily since age 7, Gocke is fast becoming one of the biggest child actors in the industry. After all, it is not every day that a 13-year-old has an Emmy award sitting in his bedroom, or flies to Australia to film a feature movie for two months. But for Justin, it`s all in a day`s work.

Justin is best known for his role on Emmy-award winning soap opera Santa Barbara, where he portrays prodigal son Brandon Capwell, a role that garnered Gocke the Emmy in 1989.

``Santa Barbara has been a great experience for me,`` Justin says. ``It has given me a lot of acting experience, experience I plan to use in other things.``

The road to success started at an early age for Justin, who made his first TV appearance in the acclaimed ABC movie The Burning Bed with Farrah Fawcett.

``We were only going to try it for a while,`` Justin explains, referring to the time when he and his brothers and sister got involved in the entertainment industry. ``They didn`t really like it. I was the only one who enjoyed it.``

Soap operas and commercials, however, are taking a back seat to his next project. Justin and his mother traveled to Australia during the spring where Justin filmed the upcoming movie Moonride.

``We just got back from filming it,`` Justin says, proudly. ``My character goes to visit my grandfather, and while he`s there, his grandfather dies. He and his friends go to his wake, and then they accidentally resurrect him.``

Moonride, also starring Al Lewis of The Munsters, is to open this Christmas.

However, Justin isn`t leaving the soap world behind. He is still featured heavily on Santa Barbara, where his character is caught between his real mother and adoptive mother.

Lately, he has been dealing with the fact that his adoptive mother, Gina (Robin Mattson), robbed a sperm bank and impregnated herself with the sperm of her ex-husband. ``I can`t believe she would rob a sperm bank!`` Justin says, laughing.

``Brandon is a good guy. If I had to change him, though,`` the actor says with a mischievous smile, ``I`d make him into a little evil kid. Brandon`s getting bad. He`s been suspended from school a couple of times. I`d like to see him be not such a nice kid anymore.``

Success hasn`t changed the young actor much. Justin lives in a quiet suburb outside of Los Angeles with his parents, an older sister and brother. His other brother resides at West Point Military Academy in New York. Justin mainly enjoys hanging out with his friends, playing soccer and rollerblading. But more than anything, Justin likes just being a kid.

However, he cannot help the fact that due to the popularity of Santa Barbara, he`s recognized more often than not.

``I like it. My friends are really good about it, too. They really don`t treat me any differently, which I like. They`re supportive of me, which I think is pretty cool. Actually, when I`m out with my friends and someone recognizes me, they think it`s great.

``Mainly I just like to hang out with my friends, play soccer or go to the movies. For a while, I didn`t have any hobbies. Mainly it was just school and work.``

Justin hopes to continue his acting studies after high school.

``I`ll major in drama, but I`ll always have something to fall back on.`` That should not be so hard. Justin is an A and B student.

``My dream role is to play someone conniving, funny and sarcastic.`` With Justin`s booming career, that opportunity should be right around the corner.

Fan Oprah Winfrey Gives Marcy Walker A Break

"Chicago Tribune" - October 08, 1992

Marcy Walker, who played the glamorous Eden for six years on the NBC soap opera “Santa Barbara,” reels off her character`s litany of woes: “Let`s see, I was in six auto accidents; I was thrown off a cliff; I was raped, paralyzed, caught in a fire.”

“I was a spy. I went back in time. My husband had a computer chip planted in his head. I played my presumed-dead brother . . . and shot my mother in the head.”

“It was magic,” Walker says of these histrionics, truly unrivaled in daytime annals.

These magic moments, combined with Walker`s incredible on-screen chemistry with “SB” co-star A Martinez (the newest cast member on “L.A. Law”), provided the soap with its highest ratings and landed Walker a daytime Emmy. But with a changing of the guard in the writing and producing team and the grab-bag of bizarre behavior pretty much tapped out, Walker left the cushy existence of afternoon stardom a year ago.

She arrived as a virtual unknown in the world of prime-time casting. Still, last year Walker won the lead in Stephen J. Cannell`s CBS series

“Palace Guard,” and this Sunday will star in the made-for-TV-movie

“Overexposed,” which airs at 8 p.m. on ABC-Ch. 7.

“I`ve been battling being (unknown) since I`ve been out of daytime,”

Walker says: “I`m proud of the work I did on ‘Santa Barbara,’ yet if I could shed that skin, it would be easier.

“What I have are polar emotions. Producers and casting directors are not always aware that a lot of people who watch me in daytime would follow me over to nighttime and watch me there.”

The first of four movies produced for ABC by Oprah Winfrey`s Harpo Productions, “Overexposed” was filmed in Chicago last spring.

Walker won the role just days before shooting was to begin, after Mare Winningham dropped out for personal reasons. Winfrey, an executive known to keep up with the soap scene and a longtime fan of Walker`s, encouraged the actress to try out for the part.

“It made my day to have somebody so respected and so powerful say,” I want her,” Walker says from her home in Studio City, Calif. “The director didn`t even know who I was. ABC said, `Why not do Susan Lucci (‘All My Children’)? We have a deal with her.”

Walker flew to Chicago, auditioned, and four days later began shooting the angst-filled, true-life domestic drama in which she plays a housewife conned into an affair with her husband`s buddy, who, after being spurned, distributes videos of their lovemaking on the front lawns of all the neighbors.

“I`ve never played such a victim,” says Walker. “She`s emotionally whiplashed. At the end of it all, there`s no relief for her.”