Real ‘Daytime’ drama
ABC Daytime VP Sallie Schoneboom underwent a real-life soap opera when she slipped and hurt herself after last Friday’s Daytime Emmy Awards.
It was around 3 a.m. when Sally tumbled into a banquette, badly dislocating her knee in the process.
“She couldn’t get up and we didn’t know if she had broken her leg,” says ABC soap star Linda Dano, who witnessed the fall with her husband, Frank Attardi, ABC star A Martinez, Dano’s publicist, Vivien Stern and Rick Manfredi, stage manager for “One Life to Live.”
“Vivien ran to call 911 and Frank immediately got to Sallie and cradled her,” Dano says. “The boys really kept her calm.”
Sallie was taken to Lennox Hill Hospital, where she was taken inside by Attardi and Manfredi and tended to by Dano’s knee doctor.
“Frank was the real hero,” Dano says. “He’s the guy you want in the foxhole with you. He’s very calm and he’s Italian – he was going to get Sallie help, no matter what!”
Sallie is currently resting at home.
As advertised
More trouble for Dr. Laura Schlessinger – this time in the form of a full-page ad.
Daily Variety, the L.A. Times and the New York Times are running the ad today pleading with advertisers not to buy time on Schlessinger’s upcoming Paramount TV show.
“Laura Schlessinger has angry and hurtful things to say about all kinds of Americans,” the ad reads in part. “Many advertisers don’t realize how alienating her program has become.”
It’s sponsored by the National Organization for Women, The National Conference for Community and Justice, the National Mental Health Association, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and People for the American Way.
That’s entertainment
Entertainment reporter Robyn Carter is leaving Ch. 5 for Ch. 2 to cover, what else, entertainment.
Meanwhile, Ch. 5’s “Good Day New York” (7-9 a.m.) was the number-two morning show for the May sweeps, averaging 292,000 households – a whopping 74 percent increase over its May ’99 numbers.
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The Chicago Tribune reports that Ch. 7 is eyeing Chicago newsie Eric Lerner to replace Bart Feder.
Trisha Yearwood guests on tomorrow’s “Queen Latifah” (9 a.m. on Ch. 5). Trisha performs “Real Live Woman” and helps women with self-esteem. Queen Latifah hosts.