annie parisse played julia on as the world turns.
annie parisse played julia on as the world turns.
who played julia on as the world turns?
annie parisse
perhaps the signature couple of the 2000s was carly tenney and jack snyder. sheffer professed little interest in the couple for a number of years, attempting to pair carly up with craig montgomery, and saddling jack with julia (annie parisse), who had debuted as a heroine but under sheffer's tenure spiralled into madness. julia killed a horse and kidnapped carly before being sent to the mental institution. the absolute nadir arrived during 2002, when barbara ryan had james stenbeck kidnap carly, emily stewart and rose to get them out of the lives of the men she loved. jack planned to go search for carly but julia broke out of the institution and held jack prisoner. in the course of the storyline, julia, desperate for a child, gave jack viagra so that he would be forced to have sex with her. many fans expected a serious discussion of male rape, but instead the whole thing was played for laughs, and immediately forgotten. carly then had a brief fling with old flame mike and had to figure out if jack or mike was the father of her baby. julia returned with a baby (j.j.) she claimed was jack's, but paternity tests proved otherwise. in summer 2003, jack and carly remarried, only to have jack presumed dead and suffering from amnesia. he recovered with the help of a nurse named julia larrabee and her son j.j. julia tried to hang on to jack post-amnesia and then seduced his cousin holden. no explanation was ever given for the similarity in names. the nurse julia was played by former abc daytime star sarah brown. in march 2005, julia hit her head during a fight with lily and died. lily, scared that she would be blamed for the accidental death of julia, fled the scene of her crime (her son luke helping her conceal evidence of having been at the scene of the crime.) it was thought that julia's brother keith (played by another abc daytime star, kin shriner) killed julia, but when suspicion shifted to luke, lily took the blame for julia's death. lily became involved with keith even though she suspected he killed julia. the killer was actually julia's ex-husband (michael lowry).
history of as the world turns
although the eventual hit game show "family feud" ran against "as the world turns" from july 12, 1976, until april 22, 1977, it did not become a hit for abc until its move to the mornings. only when abc made its first move to a one-hour soap with "all my children" did trouble really began for "as the world turns" (and "days of our lives"), since abc kept that serial's starting time at 1:00/noon, meaning that fans of that serial who tuned to nbc or cbs would miss the last half of that day's storyline (or, contrariwise, would not, if they watched until the mid-program commercial break and then changed channels, pick up the "as the world turns" or "days of our lives" activities from the episode's beginning, since abc strategically placed its break several minutes after the bottom of the hour). further, "all my children's" emphasis on youth-oriented, sexier story lines provided a sharp contrast to the domestic, almost quaint tone of "as the world turns" (and to a lesser degree, the melodramatic, somewhat topical "days"). on january 16, 1978, abc ballooned its decade-old "one life to live" to the 2:00 pm/1:00 pm starting time, compounding the other networks' headaches. these factors helped contribute to the fall of "as the world turns" from the top spot in the ratings at the end of the 1978-79 season. after finishing the previous season tied with "another world" for number one in the nielsens, "as the world turns" fell to fourth behind "all my children", "general hospital", and "the young and the restless".
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