TRISTAN ROGERS, “SCORPIO” ON GENERAL HOSPITAL, DIES

Tristan Rogers, a longtime star of ABC’s daytime soap General Hospital, has died. He was 79. He played Robert Scorpio on General Hospital off and on over 45 years, and also had a run on CBS’ The Young and the Restless. Rogers died early Friday after a battle with lung cancer, though he had never been a smoker.