Award winning producer Robert Calhoun, 77 - As The World Turns

[Bob Feigel]

(I had no idea that Farley Granger is gay until I read this.)

Producer Robert Calhoun dies at 77

Won a Daytime Emmy for 'As the World Turns'
By VARIETY STAFF

Robert Calhoun, who won a 1987 Daytime Emmy Award for producing "As
the World Turns" and was nominated for five more Emmys, died of lung
cancer in New York on May 24. He was 77.

Calhoun was the executive producer of "As the World Turns" when the
show was named the outstanding drama series for 1987 at the Daytime
Emmy Awards. The show was also nommed in 1986, 1988 and 1989.

"As the World Turns," rose to first place in the ratings under
Calhoun's guidance. He subsequently moved to "Guiding Light," where he
and that show were Emmy nommed in 1990 and 1991. He also received two
noms while working on "Another World," in 1979 and 1980.

In the early 1980s, he worked as a producer on "Texas."

Calhoun's work over the years ranged from helping to launch the Mark
Taper Forum in Los Angeles to translating Italian film scripts into
English while working in Italy in the early 1970s.

Calhoun was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He graduated from the U. of
Maryland, after serving three years in the U.S. Navy. His early work
in the theater included a stint as production supervisor for Eva Le
Gallienne's National Repertory Theater, during productions of Arthur
Miller's "The Crucible" and Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," where he
met his lifelong partner, the actor Farley Granger, in 1963.

Calhoun subsequently moved to Southern California, where he worked on
early productions at the Mark Taper Forum. In 1970, Calhoun moved to
Italy with Granger, and spent several years living in Rome. He went
back in the mid-1970s to Southern California and the Mark Taper, where
he directed plays for the New Theater for Now program.

After a few years, he returned to New York to work in daytime
television.

Calhoun was co-author of Granger's memoir, "Include Me Out," which was
published in 2007.

He is survived by Granger, two brothers and a sister.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987559.html

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[Ted]

Calhoun oversaw As the World Turns when the late, great writer Douglas
Marland was head writer.
This was also the time when the casting director knew talent: people
like Julianne Moore, Meg Ryan,
Marisa Tomei, Steven Weber, Lauryn Hill, Courtney Cox, Parker Posey
and others had recurring or regular roles.
Interestingly, Granger also was in the cast around that time.

As for Farley Granger: Arthur Laurents effectively "outed" him in his
self-serving memoirs. At the time, Granger
was not too happy about what Laurents had written, particularly as he
was still trying to find work and felt that it might
have a detrimental effect on his finding jobs. (Like Rock Hudson,
though, it was pretty much an open secret that he was
gay, at least in the Industry.) He eventually wrote his own memoir
with his partner Calhoun.

[Bob Feigel]

[Default] On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:36:11 -0700 (PDT), Ted
<nyfilm...@gmail.com> magnanimously proffered:

Thanks for the fascinating background. Live and learn ... b