Nobody's ever dead unless you see them die in a hospital, they're pronounced dead, and then maybe their body is shot a couple of times in the coffin.

Irna wanted her actresses to stay in character all the time -- she wouldn't even call them by their real names, just their character names. And she didn't want them playing other roles while they were on As The World Turns .

At one point, everybody in the country was watching As The World Turns . It became a huge part of what people thought of as soaps.

[Meanwhile, newcomer Carpenter had to twist her body in several strange positions during the demonic possession scenes. A fake Carpenter was created so they could twist the doll in various poses.] They had made a dummy and would put it in the position they needed, ... I would look at it and see how well I could approximate it. They never once used the dummy.

Really, there have been conflicting reports about caffeine and whether it's good or bad for the body.

They found his body three blocks away.