Myrtle Fargate and Liz Matthews, RIP

Tough week for soap opera fans. Eileen Herlie (left), who at age 90 was still cranking out episodes of All My Children as the lovable Myrtle Fargate, a kind of surrogate mother to Susan Lucci's Erica Kane, died Wednesday of pneumonia after 38 years on the show. Meanwhile, friends of Irene Dailey (right) announced that she died of colon cancer last month. She played Liz Matthews on Another World from 1974 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1994. She was 88.