From Deseret News archives:
It's one life to live in Paris, Texas
The character, played for 36 years by Emmy-winning actress Erika Slezak, has struggled with dissociative identity disorder and has survived breast cancer, a stroke, kidnapping, a brain aneurysm, a heart transplant and multiple husbands. And one of her children died of lupus.
No wonder she needed a change of scenery.
This fall, the millionaire newspaper publisher disappeared from her home in Llanview, Penn. E-mails to her dysfunctional family suggested she was in Paris, France. She's really in Paris, Texas, working as a waitress.
"Isn't that a hoot!' said Becky Semple, the Lamar County tourism director. "We've gotten lots of calls; so far it's been very positive."
Slezak's character has been living at a local motel and working at the fictional Bonjour Cafe. Her love interest has been a customer named Charlie, whom she met at the diner.
Parisians who follow the daytime melodrama with interest are waiting to see what plays out in their East Texas town.
Joni Kincaid of Paris is too busy working to watch "One Life to Live" when it airs Monday through Friday. She waits on tables at Magel's Grill. But her daughter is taping each episode for her.
"I've been following Viki at least 20 years, " Kincaid said.
Is she surprised the soap heroine is in Paris, Texas?
"I'm surprised anybody ever comes to Paris, Texas," she said with a grin.
"But really, there's lots of friendly people here."
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