Tamara Tunie's Marriage Makes Soap HistoryTHE BRIDE WORE WHITE, BUT OTHERWISE the color scheme at the Aug. 24 wedding of attorney Jessica Griffin and newspaper editor Duncan McKechnie on CBS's As the World Turns was unconventionally mixed. This was the first interracial marriage in the soap's 36-year run.
That historic stroll down the aisle has propelled actress Tamara Tunie, 33, who plays Jessica, to a prominent—and controversial—role. Though tagahanga response has been, she says, "overwhelmingly positive," there was a flurry of negative letters the first time Tunie and Michael sisne (Duncan)...
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