Not Young, Still Restless (24 page)

If and when my cherished friend Barbara Hale writes her memoirs, let me just say in advance that I deny everything.

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To Michael Corbett: you were a fabulous David Kimble on
Y&R
, and you’re fabulous on
Extra
. Congratulations on your success, my friend!

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With my beloved Jess Walton (
Y&R
’s Jill Foster Reynolds Chancellor Thurston Brooks Sterling Atkinson and, apparently, Fenmore) on a brief break between cake-fights.

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My former costar Shemar Moore (
Malcolm
,
Y&R
)—actually, just an excuse to include this photo, because . . . well, look at him!

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Personally and professionally, I love Anthony Geary and finally got to work with him on Corbin’s film
Carpool Guy.

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Dressed as Queen Elizabeth I for
Y&R
. . . or an ill-conceived fashion risk.

© 1973, 2012 CPT Holdings, Inc.

I proudly and humbly present my real-life family.

Courtesy of Charles W. Bush, photographer, and CBS
Soaps in Depth

I proudly and humbly present my daytime family.

© 1973, 2012 CPT Holdings, Inc.

About the Author

JEANNE COOPER was born in 1928 as the youngest child of part-Cherokee parents. She has been working in show business for the past seven decades. She has earned the love of soap-opera fans for her long-running role as the wealthy, tough-as-nails but generally good-hearted Katherine Chancellor on CBS’s
The Young and the Restless.
She is the only actor who has been with the show since its premiere. For her work on the series, she received back-to-back Daytime Emmy Award nominations as Outstanding Leading Actress in a Drama Series in 1989, 1990, and 1991. In 1993, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in recognition of her many years in show business.

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Praise

“Jeanne Cooper, aka Mrs. Chancellor, has worked that role to the max. Her book is equally good. Jeanne is still young and restless.”

—Aretha Franklin

“I loved my dear friend Jeanne’s book so much that I read it in a day and a half! She’s one of a kind, and
Not Young, Still Restless
definitely does her justice.”

—Lee Phillip Bell, cocreator,

The Young and the Restless
and
The Bold and the Beautiful

“Daytime’s undisputed grande dame delivers a no-holds-barred memoir so full of heart, wit, and insight that reading it is like sitting with a glass of fine wine and the great lady herself. Jeanne Cooper’s memoir,
Not Young, Still Restless
, is a gift, not only to her millions of fans and admirers, but to anyone interested in how a talented, independent woman thrives and survives eight decades in this brutal business of show without compromising her principles, her work, or her fierce individuality. Ms. Cooper is a treasure, truly one of a kind, and her memoir is a helluva good read!”

—Anthony “Tony” Geary, Luke on
General Hospital

“Fasten your seatbelt! You are about to fly with Wilma Jeanne Cooper as she is blown up, down, and sideways through eighty-three fabulous years of life! Smashingly funny, heartachingly honest, and loaded with some damn fine dish (yep, she kisses
and
tells!), this is much more than a memoir. It’s a handbook for survival. You won’t just admire this woman’s feisty grace and old-soul wisdom, you will want to be her when you grow up.”

—Michael Logan,
TV Guide

“This amazing woman and I have known each other since we really were ‘young and restless.’ How wonderful to have a book that shares her life with the world, and how blessed I was to have been part of it all—her incomparable talent when we worked together on movies and TV shows, including many episodes of Perry Mason, and at-home time with our families, trying to keep our kids (and husbands) out of trouble. I simply adore her. Take her home with you—the book, I mean.”

—Barbara Hale, actress, and
Perry Mason
’s iconic Della Street

“Written beautifully, lived beautifully. As spectacular as she is to know, the journey was even more fabulous. So that’s how it’s done.”

—Hillary B. Smith, actress,
The Doctors,

As the World Turns, One Life to Live,

and
The Bold and the Beautiful

“I love working with Jeanne. She has a great sense of humor and she and I don’t hold back with our opinions. I have warm feelings for her because I respect the fact that she has survived in this business for so long and is still standing strong.”

—Eric Braeden

“Jeanne Cooper is a wildly interesting woman, and lucky for us, she has written a wildly interesting memoir. Treat yourself.”

—Marcia Wallace, actress and author of

Don’t Look Back, We’re Not Going That Way

“What a great life Jeanne Cooper has had! And here she is, having come full circle. Jeanne started out young and innocent and has ended up
old
and
innocent
.”

—Susan Flannery, Golden Globe

and Emmy Award–winning actress

Credits

Cover design by Emin Mancheril

Front cover photograph by www.charlesbush.com

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

N
OT YOUNG, STILL RESTLESS
. Copyright © 2012 by Jeanne Cooper. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition AUGUST 2011 ISBN: 9780062117762

Version 02152013

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