From: enielsen@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Erica Nielsen)
Subject: DOOL:  More SOD News....
Originator: enielsen@cayley.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:01:10 GMT


  Here's a little more stuff from SOD's latest issue.  It's all about
  Staci Greason (Isabella), so you Izzy haters might want to skip
  this one.  :-)

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Taken without permission from Soap Opera Digest, August 18th issue

  LATE BREAKING NEWS
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     When most actors decide to leave their shows, it's because they want to
  look for  greener (read lucrative) pastures -- on another TV program, in
  films or on the stage.  But Staci Greason (Isabella), who recently announced
  her plans to quite DAYS OF OUR LIVES, is an exception.  When the actress
  exits Salem at the end of October, she'll also leave show buisness. 'I 
  really don't want to be an actor anymore,' she reveals. 'I don't like it.'

     After she takes a two-month European vacation in the winter, Greason says
  she wants to go back to school.  'I want to go to UCLA and finish my degree
  in women's studies,' explains Greason, who dropped out of the University
  of Colorado in her senior year.  Of daytime stardom, she says, 'I went to
  the Emmys, I got to see some shows, and I woke up again.  I realized that I'm   tired of the form that [acting] is in.  I want to have a little break from
  it.'

     While she says she enjoyed her experience on DAYS, Greason also feels that
  she lost some of her identity.  'I'm healthier now than when I started [on]
  the show,' she confides. 'I never knew how to set up boundaries and stand
  up for myself.  No one has the right to tell you, 'Your hair should look 
  like this, and you should wear this.'  I never knew that.  I was always
  like, 'You want my hair black?  Okay.  You want it red? Okay.'  I finally
  stopped and said, 'I'm not dyeing my hair anymore.  What you see is what
  you get.'

     Her decision to leave the entertainment industry isn't necessarily    
  permanent.  Greason says she might like to try her hand at screenwriting
  and producing.  And, once she 'takes a break from it,' she may indeed
  go back to acting.  For now, Greason is living in the present.  'One of
  the greatest things about change is that it always makes you appreciate
  what you have,' she explains.  'It's really precious for me to spend time
  with Missy [Reeves, Jenn] and her baby.  I really listen to Drake [Hogestyn,
  John] tell his jokes.'

     Even though she calls Isabella 'sort of a doormat,' Greason will miss her
  character, who, she says, will be killed off: 'It [will] be an exciting
  opportunity for me.  Poignant, with lots of tears.'


  Erica!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  ...happily owned by Kitty for the last 14 years...  :-)
 
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