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Soap Opera Writer Auctions Off Chicago Condo

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An Emmy award winning soap opera writer is auctioning off her Chicago condo. Last month Kay Alden picked up her fifth daytime Emmy award this time as co-head of the writing team on The Bold and The Beautiful, and now, as Chicago Magazine reports, she's selling her 25th floor home at auction on July 27. The 4,700-square-foot home is an assemblage four smaller condos bought over the course of 20 years. The full-floor condo has panoramic views. The condo had been listed at $1.95 million for about a year. The auction through Fine & Company has a suggested opening bid is $600,000. Chicago Magazine reports that some of the finishes in the unit are dated (check out their photo gallery for a look). Still, it's a tempting amount of space with some truly stellar views.

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Soap Opera To Donate Show Wardrobe To Charity

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Filed under: Apparel, Charity

The longest running soap opera, "Guiding Light" comes to an end this fall but the show's wardrobe will have a second life. Crain's is reporting that the production will be donating the show's wardrobe to Bottomless Closet, a New York charity that provides appropriate clothing for job interviews for those who have trouble affording the right outfits. The charity helps women who are often single heads of households forced to choose between the necessity of food and shelter for themselves and buying the clothing necessary to make a good impression.

Clients are referred to Bottomless Closet from other agencies and receive two complete outfits before a scheduled job interview. After they have found a job they can return for three more outfits. The women served by Bottomless Closet will be able to have their choice of the huge collection of clothes, shoes, handbags, jewelry and accessories amassed over the soap opera's 72-year run and dress like leading ladies but hopefully with better luck than the oft-imperiled heroines on the show.

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Descante, Estate of the Day

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When I was a child it always seemed to me like it would be a good gig to write for soap operas. Scripting all those weddings and amnesia attacks and dramatic returns from the dead seemed like so much fun. And apparently, if you work at it long enough you can make quite a tidy profit. Behold the home of Bridget and Jerry Dobson who wrote for a variety of soap operas and created the soap opera Santa Barbara (perhaps most famous for launching the career of Robin Wright Penn). Mrs. Dobson later had a career as a painter.The Dobsons built their home in the Buckhead area of Atlanta in 1997. The massive home sits on four acres in Tuxedo Park and has been done up to the nines with the most lavish of details. It has seven bedrooms. 11.5 baths and an unabashedly classic and romantic style. It is listed at $19 million and the annual taxes alone are in the six figures. After the jump, the home that Bridget Dobson calls the house that fantasy built.

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