Michael Zaslow - Tribute 

Michael Zazlow was so talented and amazing 👏 my favorite storyline ❤ Holly and Roger

Michael Zaslow was my favorite of all daytime actors. So much charisma, so much talent! His journey opened my eyes to how awful ALS is. When my closest friend was diagnosed with ALS in 2018, he didn't have to explain to me what it was, or how it would change him. It was awful, but I at least had the knowledge that it was super important to value every minute we had left together.

he was the best

That was a wonderful tribute. Michael Zaslow was a wonderful actor.

Roger Thorpe was one of the most emotionally complex characters in daytime soap history and Michael Zaslow was so eminently talented play that character so convincingly. It's so hard to believe he was only 54 when he died.

Happy Anniversary Jerry, you were the best as Ross! What were GL thinking when they killed you off?!

I’d also like to add a huge Thank You for this wonderful opportunity to remember the Legend, Michael Zaslow. Michael should have had a room full of Emmys for Best Actor, he was robbed so many times by the academy.

Kimberley knocked it out of the park as Mindy, loved her version.

Thank you sooooo much, Alan. As I said in the live stream, this is the ONLY good thing to come out of this awful covid times. Your videos are greatly appreciated.

Liz Denehy I havent seen since 31 years when she played Blake! Good for inviting her to be on. Sorry Sherry couldn't make it I was looking forward to seeing her. So good to see all that participated.

So sorry I missed this live but thank you so much for this Alan! Both he and Chris Bernau were the reason I loved the show!

I love your Dad so much on Guiding Light. He was such a powerful and entertaining actor. RIP Michael Zazlow.

Love the sound of Fiona's voice!

This Tribute was so emotional and moving I just can't put into words. I can go on and on about GL and Michael, been a fan since I could remember! I cant thank you enough Alan for doing this tribute to one of the greatest actors of all time. And the one with Beverlee was outstanding as well. They were indeed two powerhouses of daytime! The early 90s GL was on fire!

That's a wonderful, but a inspirational speech that Michael Zaslow gave at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 1994. Also, He & Wendy Moniz was co-presenters at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 1996! You did a great job doing The Tribute Show for Michael Zaslow, he will truly be missed!

How lucky we were to have this magnificent human being each and every day in our home .

Very touching tribute. Thank you so much! I watched Michael Zaslow on One Life to Live. He was such a great actor. How lovely to see his beautiful, daughter. He would be so proud.

Alan you knocked it out of the park this was an amazing episode and beautiful tribute to a beautiful on and off the screen. I am now 55 years old I had no idea that Michael zaslow was only 54 when he died wow that is so young in deed! Listening to his daughter and his castmates speaking so beautifully about him and what protector he was of his co co-stars. I'm sorry that Finola was having such technical difficulties I really wanted to hear every word that she had to say about Michael zaslow.. and Kim Sims was my absolute favorite Mindy..

Michael was the best

Beautiful tribute to a great actor!😃

This was so great, Alan! I was fortunate enough to meet, Michael at a fan event where prior to he was the Grand Marshall of a Christmas Parade in our hometown. I was gawking at him from the front row at a question/answer session and he reached out to me because he could see I was so star struck! What a great memory of mine forever!

BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO MICHAEL💗💗💗 ZASLOW WONDERFUL TO SEE EVERYONE AGAIN I'M A LOYAL FAN FROM 1978 INTO ETERNITY FOR ME IT WAS MORE THAN A SOAP OPERA THE CHARACTERS WERE LIKE FRIENDS & FAMILY IF ONLY SHERRY COULD'VE MADE IT WONDERFUL TO SEE THE FIRST BLAKE I REMEMBER HER💗💗 WELL AS BLAKE HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO JERRY🤗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗🤗

My condolences to Michael's family. Michael was the best actor next to Peter Simon. Another one of my favorites. So sorry to hear.

Yes, Italy loves GL e Michael😍🌹⭐

What a great tribute to such a talented man. We'll forever miss you Michael Zaslow. Thanks Alan for putting this together.

Michael Zaslow is definitely one of the all time greats in soaps. So heartwarming to see him still fondly remembered and honored all these years later. What a legacy!

I was sad Sherry couldn't make it..but Elizabeth D showed up! She had alot of crazy things to do in her 1 year on the show (the mystery phone calls during the writers strike that no one knew who she was talking to, the Adam Malick story, the crazy wedding attempt, and finding out Adam Malick was her dad.

Alan, you continue to surprise us and entertain us and I am forever grateful and thankful for your love and continued support of the genre of soap opera. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Thank you so much Alan for the Beautiful tribute of Michael. Zaslow. Well done. Its also good to see how well Marika is doing and all she has accomplished considering her loss back to back. She truly is a strong, women with strength and wisdom and her family is smiling from above. The ending with him winning his only emmy and beautiful speech was priceless.Request could you do a tribute of David Canary from all my children?

Words cannot convey how amazingly special this is...so many memories...and it was wonderful to hear about Michael from the family side. Thank you Alan for assembling this group, and especially showing the clip at the end. I had not seen that since it aired live.

I only found out about this tribute to Michael Zaslow because I had recently RU-vidd his Emmy win that you showed at the end of this video. Would've hated to miss this. It was the Roger/Holly story of the early 90's that drew me in and the shabby, shameful dismissal of Mr. Zaslow that forced me to abandon GL. Excruciating to hear Ms. Garrett say the writers had wanted to keep Roger and Holly together. To have seen them finally heal and become whole as Roger gradually became incapacitated would've been epic storytelling. Epic. Please express my gratitude to Marika Zaslow for appearing on this tribute. It was so comforting to see her and know she is all right and living such a full and meaningful life; I hope having the opportunity to talk about her father and hear again how beloved he was brought her much joy and peace. Thank you, Mr. Lochner, for making this happen.

Loved Michael and had the pleasure of meeting him at a fan event in CT along with Maeve Kincaid and Wendy Mobile and two other cast members. His presence in the room was incredible. .

Michael was one of my favorite actors on the guiding light no mention of lenore kasdorf rita who was involved with Roger

This was an awesome tribute to Michael Zaslow; it was really great to hear all the stories from all his co-stars and his daughter. He was one of my favorites actors from Guiding Light. I still catch his episodes from Law and Order every few months and it brightens my day. Thank you for doing these Alan.

the best i miss him

Omg this is amazing. I looooved roger and holly

Thanks Alan for doing this as we'll never forget the man and the legend of Michael Zaslow. It was good to see everyone including his daughter too, his legacy will never be forgotten. Have a great weekend and see you next week, can't wait to see the tribute for the great late Agnes Nixon who laid the groundwork for AMC and OLTL to come to life. Have a great one.

Now that I see my favorite Blake, Elizabeth Dennehy, was on, I'm even more upset I missed it live!!!!

Thank you SO much for doing this. In the mid-80s, my family and I went to NYC for summer vacation. During the intermission of a play we saw, we went to the lobby and I saw Michael Zaslow in the crowd. But it seemed like I was seeing Roger Thorpe, himself. I was actually scared. LOL

Alan after watching this I bought a used copy of not that man anymore and inside the book is a personal written note from Susan in the book to old friends. If someone in her family want this copy please let me know.

Thank you Alan, for the wonderful tribute to Michael Zaslow. Nice to see familiar faces take part in this tribute.

Wow. Such a beautiful tribute. So many great stories. While Maureen, Liz, Elizabeth, Fiona, Jerry and Marika were all wonderful, there were so many more great actors that I would have loved to seen as well. Too many to mention that worked with Michael over his almost 30 year span with the show. But just to mention a few that are no longer with us... Robert Millie, Barbara Berjer, Chris Bernau, Beverlee McKenzie. Just to name a few. How awesome would it be to hear from these wonderful people again that worked with Michael. And it is unfathomable to me that it took so long for Michael to not only be nominated but to win an Emmy for Best Actor. It should have happened long before it did. 1980 should have been his year. Again, marvelous tribute. Oh, and poor Fiona. There's always that one person that has wi-fi trouble. This time it was poor Fiona. ❤️

Beautiful tribute. Thank you Alan and all who participated.

Michael was such a good actor. Thank you for doing this tribute and for all of the shows that you do. Please know that we appreciate it. You make this horrible pandemic bearable and give us something to look forward to.

Michael Zaslow was one of my favorites, played such a great character Roger Thrope. My husband would even come home when Guilding Light was on to watch what Roger was up to. You are missed Michael .

This was great! Micheal seemed like a fantastic person and, of course, he was a great actor. So amazing to see everyone too, and awesome that you were able to get his daughter to participate in this!

Thank you Alan for the tribute of Michael Zaslow. It was fun to watch

Roger was as bad as J.R. Ewing was I think J.R. was patterned after Roger Thorpe The most evil guy on daytime tv I loved him!

I’m so sad I didn’t start watching GL until after he left the show (I was 13) but I’m thankful for RU-vid so I can rewatch. ❤️

How did I miss this one? Wow

Thank you Alan for doing that! Michael will be terribly missed forever!

@The Locher Room - Thank you Alan for doing the tribute to Michael Zaslow. I just found out that this was on today, March 23 even though I am signed up for notifications . . Great tribute to watch today. Thank you, Alan, I enjoyed watching .. How awful that “guiding Light” didn’t know how to handle Michael’s diagnosis of ALS.!!! Now, 2 soaps have written in Alzheimer’s for 2 characters. - GH and YR!!!

GL did two of the greatest returns from the dead stories in 1989- Beth Raines and Roger Thorpe.

I told UK Soap Fans about what they did and they were appalled. They always do their best to help folks and teach them. Over the years they have hired Child Actors who have Down's Syndrome, who are in a Wheelchair, Have Cerebal Palsy even a real life FTM Actor. With ALS they would have shown how challenging it is to have it and and they have also done The Ice Bucket Challente.

Thank you so much for doing this Alan, Michael Zaslow was my favorite daytime actor!

I'm forever grateful to you for this beautiful & emotional tribute to Michel Zaslow/Roger Thorpe! 🙏🏻Thank you!❤️

You know you are a great actor, when you can make someone hate your guts, then love you, too. Michael Z. Oh my GOD...aside from his actor side...so amazing.

thanks Alan for do this! i hope that Sherry will be to the next reunion maybe for the next Bloss reunion, so thank again Alan.

I remember meeting him at a K-Mart with my mom when I was little

R.I.P.Jerry Ver Dorn We miss you🙏🏻

Alan another wonderful show!

hi Holly Jenna Blake and Mindy. they were all beauties and great actresses. i miss the show and m girl riva..

This was WONDERFUL. Thank you.

wow just ran across this oh the memories and how i miss my fav soaps guiding light and awt i watch with my mom and continued to watch to the end. now as for michael zaslow (roger) the best villi an of all times. i call him roger the dodger

I just seen Michael zaslow in his youth on a star trek episode.he had an alluring mysterious kind of beauty.wonderful actor.great tribute.

Thank you for this wonderful tribute to one of the baddest ( and I mean that in a good way) Daytime villains ever Rodger Thorpe played by the one and only Michael Zaslow, I still remember the news flash that came on saying he had passed, misty eyes again watching this, Daytime lost one of its great ones...

Thank you so much for doing this! And really for all your wonderful videos! Although I have known who Michael is for ages, it is only the past few years that I have truly come to appreciate his talent. I have been immersed in Old uploads of guiding light and to say he was an asset to the show is a huge understatement. I am currently watching March of 1997 when he was having his problem. But let's face it. Guiding light would never have been the same without him

Thank you thank you thank you for this

If only you didn't lose that damn earring, Mindy

Michael was so handsome!

He was Roger Thorpe

Where the hell is Lenore Kasdorf??? She was integral to GL. Her character Rita Bauer with Roger Thorpe was fascinating. Their scenes garnered GL their first Emmy win for best show.

Thank you Alan!

Thanks for the beautiful tribute Alan!

Wonderful tribute ! Michael was really great !

You know the actor is great, when they play a villain you secretly hope would get away with so many things. I love to watch Michael play Roger at his worst, he was so good.

This was a great tribute, and just out of curiosity...because Michael Zaslow was a great romantic interest for Brynn Thayer on "ONE LIFE TO LIVE", and they were friends offscreen, would there ever be a Tribute, Part II, with Ms. Thayer, Robin Strasser and Ava Haddad?

Hard to believe he's been gone 25 years

I was so glad when Mr. Zaslow won the Emmy in 1994. He beat out David Canary and Peter Bergman who were perennial winners. Zaslow as Roger Thorpe was so complicated and sexy. He's one of the few soap leading men who had formidable leading women. The Mindy, Alexandra, and Roger storyline was great. I was nine or ten when that played out but I remember it well.

When Holly shot Roger.

Is ZazAngels still an organization? I tried to find it to contribute.

Alan you're always pneomenal with these. I wonder if u can get Kim Zimmer and cynthia watros together

This was amazing. Thank you. Is there way you could do a tribute to the late Charles Keating.

NO BETTER VILLAIN EVER!!!!!!! Roger was the true definition of a troubled soul!!!!! But, truly you would want to strangle him one minute and the next plead with Holly to take him back!!!!!!

What happened from the time where they were will to tell of Bert Baur’s heslth struggle ( she had her leg amputated? ) to the squeamishness of not want to tell of Michael Zaslow’s Roger’s battle?

Gl should have kept him on. One of many mistakes they made with cast

Fiona needs to invest in some better wi-fi.

OLTL treated Michael with so much compassion and live...GL, not so much

This gives me another reason to despise Paul Rauch. Letting Jacquie and George go from AW and letting Michael go from GL.

It’s so annoying the sound it gives me a headache to listen to