Susan and Bill Hayes Go back to Times of Our Way Of Life

Bill Hayes, Susan Seaforth Hayes There's been lots of hoopla - naturally! - concerning the September 26 relaunch of NBC's Times Of Our Way Of Life and also the return of supercouple Drake Hogestyn and Deidre Hall. But, honestly, we are just like excited that Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes - the real Initial few Salem - will also be headed to the show. Watch out for them September 23 through 28 when their figures, Doug and Julie Williams, appear for that dedication celebration from the new Horton Town Square. Both of these beloved stories - married in tangible existence since 1974 - made the coverage of your time magazine in 1976 once they, and Days, were the most popular things going. (Obviously, trivia buffs know Mr. Hayes was hot before that like a singer - in 1955 he'd no. 1 single in the usa with "The Ballad of Davy Crockett.") Now, using the demise of The Kids (farewell Joe and Ruth!), Doug and Julie would be the longest-running couple in soaps. TV Guide Magazine spoke using the irrepressible, ever sassy Seaforth Hayes to obtain her ideas about the Days reboot. What's going to it decide to try keep her around making her the brand new Alice Horton?TV Guide Magazine: I have always respected the two of you for how you weather the good and the bad at Days. We may not help you for several weeks, or years, however, you always return smiling. No sour feelings.Seaforth Hayes: Bill and that i were speaking about this just today. You may be sore and hurt and mad about this or else you can embark upon and also have a wonderful existence, which we are trying to complete. We travel. We now have fun together. We are just putting the finishing touches on our first novel. It's taken us 4 to 5 many it is extremely rip-roaring.TV Guide Magazine: Provide us with the deets.Seaforth Hayes: It's known as Trumpet and it is very romantic, though not really a romance novel. This is an historic novella, covering two decades from the Regency period, and among the primary figures in Giovanni Belzoni, the truly amazing Italian explorer. Napoleon can also be inside it. It is also concerning the theater. We have were built with a hell of a great time putting it together. It is extremely sexy and lots of fun and everything I truly learn about acting is within this book. Obviously, it's all regulated happening in another century but it is exactly the same feelings - all of the stresses and also the delights and also the fears I have referred to as an actress have been in there. [Laughs] But that is not what we are meant to be speaking about! The pr people want us to become speaking concerning the recently energized Times of Our Way Of Life.Television Guide Magazine: Oh, we'll reach that. This really is interesting stuff! You and also Bill won raves for the memoir, Like Sands With the Shapely, a couple of in the past. I love that you simply really write your personal books, unlike certain other daytime divas we may mention.Seaforth Hayes: So what can I only say?TV Guide Magazine: Well, what else could you say?Seaforth Hayes: Not everyone can set lower a obvious sentence. Individuals girls have other gifts. Other gifts.TV Guide Magazine: Whoever else completed with the actual Susan Hayes? Give you credit being diplomatic!Seaforth Hayes: [Laughs] I must. I am an elder during my chapel!TV Guide Magazine: So when's it out?Seaforth Hayes: Most likely in The month of january, released by Decadent Books.TV Guide Magazine: Decadent! You alone. I really like your existence.Seaforth Hayes: Well, Bill is indeed a lover of existence and that he has trained me to possess a larger horizon, that we think is most likely the important thing to the still being deliriously pleased to see one another 24 hrs each day. We are able to still squint and fumble making ourselves out across a crowded room. [Laughs] Oh, there's a lot history. We have been likely to nowadays book-signings recently and we'll just take a look at one another and say, "Nobody knows but us. Nobody would accept is as true but us."TV Guide Magazine: You heard right. You and also Bill happen to be out on the highway with [Days co-professional producer] Greg Meng doing it tour! [Meng may be the mastermind behind the mega-seller coffee table book Times of Our Way Of Life 45 Years: A Celebration in Photos.]Seaforth Hayes: Yes, and fans happen to be arriving within the proverbial groups. They're as passionate as all escape. And they are also purchasing our autobiography and Billy's Compact disc too so it is a good reason behind us to visit. Meeting the fans continues to be very lighting and that we are constantly reminded of the items soaps have forfeit on the way - the generational support. People accustomed to say they inherited their Days habit using their grandmother or their mother. There is a period when 3 or 4 decades of the family could be devoted to our show. We do not have that just as much any longer. But you will find still many people who care and they are very excited to determine us. I am grateful to be in this area to witness that, since it states i was once doing something excellent. But, again, we digress. They need us speaking about this relaunch!TV Guide Magazine: Okay, okay! How can Doug and Julie squeeze into the large event?Seaforth Hayes: [Laughs] Why, appreciate asking! It's nothing greatly important but it is a captivating group of shows and that i was thrilled to do them. We laugh up for any couple of lines in some places and undergo old pictures and things like that to help remind the crowd of who the Hortons were. And we'll be singing together that is rather amusing. Someone at Days appeared to understand that Bill and that i sang together on the program previously when, actually, he and I have not done that. [Laughs] But when that's the way they remember it, fine. We'll sing Irving Berlin's "I'm Going To Be Loving You Usually,Inch that was Tom and Alice Horton's theme. I believe maybe Billy sang it at their 40th anniversary party. It's very sentimental and sweet and romantic, the direction they need the show to show in.TV Guide Magazine: We're able to all apply certain traditional-fashioned sentiment about the soaps at this time. Nobody will it much better than Days.Seaforth Hayes: I figured they handled losing Alice superbly, instead of once they kind of kissed off Tom when Mac Carey died. Salem never was Mayberry but recently it's converted into something of the lizard pit where you wouldn't like to boost your loved ones. They're trying to show the show around psychologically to ensure that you've figures you can't only like to hate but really like to love, and root for. Certainly the return of Matthew Ashford [Jack], Christie Clark and Patrick Muldoon [Barbara and Austin] and Deidre and Drake [Marlena and John] promises something besides a nest of vipers. This is actually the return of truly pleasant people and romance follows from that. From likability develops love develops romance, and also the show will become really romantic again. We frantically require it.Television Guide Magazine: Why has true romance become this type of rarity about the soaps?Seaforth Hayes: Soaps have grown to be a visible medium which demands action and crisis and violence, obviously. We have been trying within the small theater of daytime drama to guide with violence and shock and there is damn little to become shocked about on the planet any longer, therefore it is all been rather futile to possess one crime story to another. Our real life is frightening enough. So they are restarting, stimulating and refreshing the show. I believe we'll have less rendezvous lower in the pier, that is dark and shady, and much more lunches in the new Horton Center, that has been established to recognition and don't forget the Horton family inside a large way.TV Guide Magazine: It is good to determine Days reacting towards the crisis within the cleaning soap world and acknowledging its past mistakes, unlike, say, the executives in the Youthful and also the Restless who appear to become sabotaging their show every possible way nowadays. It's crazy.Seaforth Hayes: If only our government could move as quickly as our producers happen to be moving. Time is short. Greg Meng continues to be eating his heart out obtaining the show inside a great place. I understand he's doing everything that's possible. There's real heritage here. There's real legacy.TV Guide Magazine: In which the hell have Doug and Julie been anyway? Seaforth Hayes: [Laughs] It seems they've been constantly cruising for any decade! I suppose they've among individuals condos at ocean. Sometimes once the authors haven't wanted us back for any large event, they announce that Doug and Julie were postponed in the airport terminal and unsuccessful to create that last connection. [Sighs] It's what it's. But you will find there's meeting scheduled using the new authors, so perhaps I'll discover if there's an agenda for all of us.Television Guide Magazine: That sounds promising if they are calling you set for a conference! Seaforth Hayes: Well, not always. I requested the meeting! [Laughs] So what can I only say? Hope springs eternal.TV Guide Magazine: What exactly are you likely to let them know?Seaforth Hayes: Let me tell them that not so long ago Doug and Julie were spicy figures who accustomed to perform a lot of comedy so we are more than pleased being the brand new Tom and Alice. Bill is really suitable for that. He's 13 grandchildren and that he is a superb supply of enlightenment and help and guidance to these, and that he is greatly beloved by them. He or she is that same type of a estimate Salem - a personality guy of goodness instead of the smoothness males of badness who're already well-established on the program. For me, I am happy in becoming Frances Reid! I'd be proud to! However I think we may be the new Tom and Alice with a few real bite. Possibly it only appears like Doug and Julie happen to be doing all of this cruising. You never know? Maybe they have privately been as much as another thing around the globe. We're able to return dripping with back story from your absence. We appear to become suspiciously well-to-do. As being a supply of money must put us in the heart of a myriad of excitement!TV Guide Magazine: Also it does not hurt that you simply two are the most gorgeous people in the world!Seaforth Hayes: Well, our authors will need to come to their personal decision about this. [Laughs] But my physician and that i thanks!Sign up to TV Guide Magazine now!