While A clip show of Jeanne Cooper's work as Katherine Chancellor on Young And The Restless would have been a fitting tribute, Y&R when above and beyond the traditional retrospective by having cast members talk about their experiences with the award winning soap veteran who died from COPD.
Starting off with a touching by her children, led by her son Corbin Berson , followed by tales from her cast-mates (including Eric Braeden, Billy Miller, Joshua Morrow, Kristoff St. John, Melody Thomas Scott,and Jess Walton), the Y&R special for Jean Cooper was more than a trip down memory, it was fitting tribute to a true dame who loved her family, off stage and on as well as her fans.
The only drawback from the special is that you wanted to hear more stories about this grand actress, but there just wasn't enough time ( Since the Bell family created "Y&R and "The Bold and Beautiful," I'm sure BB wouldn't have minded being pre-empted for Jeanne Cooper).
Another fitting tribute to Jeanne Cooper would be if CBS chief Les Mooves would re-air the special Y&R episode one night later this week, ( since sweeps is over, the only thing that eye network is showing reruns of 2 Broke Girls.)
Although The Young and The Restless is a daytime show, it is still part of the CBS family, a family Jeanne Cooper dedicated almost 40 years of her life to creating art as well as a revenue stream that Moonves and past CBS presidents has enjoyed since the 1970s.
Showing the Jeanne Cooper tribute at night would not only reaffirm that daytime TV is just important to CBS as night time TV, but it would also give a nod to Hollywood's golden past; a past that seems to dim faster each year as yet another legend from that era passes away.
R.I.P Miss Chancellor
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