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Oct.23.2011
since As the World Turns’ final episode aired? Actually, it’s been a bit longer. I’ve had a lot going on – and this has been a difficult piece for me to write.
In 1995, after contributing several pieces to Soap Opera Weekly, I began pitching an idea to Smithsonian Magazine for a long article on the...
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Oct.20.2011
and feeling like a spoilsport, but...
I wish I could share in the excitement over the newly-issued As the World Turns DVD set. I really do. But, as I read through the list of selected episodes, I felt much as I do when a schoolchild asks me to buy mediocre chocolate I won’t eat (now, Girl...
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Oct.03.2011
POETS AND WRITERS WRITE AGAINST ARMS
But remain pathetic in approach and stay lukewarm
No one has dared to say a word about its implications
Where as humanity at large has remained in questions
It goes on unabated and in full production
We are all aware and helplessly watch...
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Sep.16.2011
The boards have been oddly quiet, so apparently I’m the only one who takes exception to CBS Sunday Morning’s upcoming feature on Susan Lucci. It was just a year ago that I noted how silently As the World Turns had slipped into the good night. None of the media hoopla that surrounded the end of...
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Jul.06.2011
and a sad goodbye to one of soap opera’s most enduring villains...
As the late Michael Zaslow had with Roger Thorpe on Guiding Light, Anthony Herrera infused his portrayal of As the World Turns’ James Stenbeck with layer upon nuanced layer of emotional depth. When I heard that he died late last...
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Nov.08.2010
Irony fully intended.
Thanks to Sara Bibel for bringing this little nugget to my attention: NBC Throws Spotlight on Older Demos, Hopes for Shift in Attitude, Spending.
While Sara wonders if this development will help the remaining soaps, all I can say is wouldn’t it have been nice if NBC,...
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Oct.12.2010
Had to laugh when I read this from TWoP poster, lilyredd regarding the current state of affairs at One Life to Live:
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, when will this show cease with the constant influx of unwanted and unnecessary new characters--particularly of the female variety. When we have characters...
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Sep.20.2010
When I left for the pool this afternoon, it was a little after two, and the red light that indicates the DVR is recording was not on. And when I returned before dinner, for the first time in, well, I suppose since 1987, when I got my first VCR, there was no recording of As the World Turns for...
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Sep.16.2010
And yet, the sun will come up tomorrow. When it does, Yom Kipper, the day when Jews atone for their sins of the past year, will be half over; one final, ironic example of absurdly exquisite timing – right up there with CBS’s announcement of Guiding Light’s cancellation last April Fools Day.
Also...
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Sep.15.2010
Last month, I came across the piece below at the Fuller Craft Museum. Being so close to the end of the As the World Turns' fifty-four year run, I was particularly intrigued by how perfectly the title echoed what Irna Phillips wrote in the original ATWT bible. This is from the beginning of her...
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