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Mar.12.2010
He grew up next to Steve Lavin in Marin, has worked the craft of acting all over the world, and now he is a heartthrob to millions of TV fans.
Bradley Cole, who grew up in Marin County and attended Redwood High School, recently won an award at the annual Soap Opera Awards in Universal City....
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Oct.12.2009
Last August, blogger Sara Bibel noted that "buried within the addictive train wreck" of reaction (here and here), to the firing of Soap Opera Weekly editor, Carolyn Hinsey, was "some serious commentary about soap opera journalism." This past August, it was fan reaction to an...
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Sep.21.2009
Lights up.
NEWBIE and OLDTIMER are discussing the final days of Guiding Light.
NEWBIE
Okay. First question: who was that guy with the hat who came to see Alex?
OLDTIMER
That was Fletcher Reade. He used to be married to Holly.
NEWBIE
Holly? The same Holly who went off with Dr. Ed?
OLDTIMER...
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Sep.18.2009
plently of carping to come, but first, a big thank you.
with all the press releases about returning actors, not to mention the spoilers and tweeting from the set as gl wrapped up its final weeks, i didn't think it would be possible for viewers to be surprised. but, surprise, surprise, we were. not...
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Sep.18.2009
1:55. How many times have I sat down on the couch, turned on the TV to channel 5, and got ready for Guiding Light? So many times, I've lost track. This will be the last time. Last time I will sit down on the couch and watch the show. Okay. Here we go.
2:00: Oh, fantastic beginning. They go...
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Sep.13.2009
With Guiding Light's final episode looming at the end of this week, CBS News finally stepped up to the plate with extended stories on both "CBS Sunday Morning" and "60 Minutes." Even taking into account the formidable challenges posed by trying to do justice to GL's seventy-two...
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Jul.30.2009
With Guiding Light now officially ending in September, it means many former GL cast members are coming back. The one that makes me a very, very happy camper is Lisa Brown, who portrayed Nola Reardon-Chamberlain, one of the most three-dimensional, funniest characters in daytime.
Nola made her debut...
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Jul.28.2009
It's taken me a while to get to this, but a while back, Red Room member, Lana Nieves, challenged the conventional wisdom that the 1993 death of Maureen Bauer was the beginning of the end for Guiding Light. It was a great piece, and Lana made a lot of good points, but...
To quote Lana, "I...
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Jul.15.2009
it was a lovely wedding. yes, there was a lot if silliness in the runup. a wedding cake of twinkies held together with canned whipped cream? the wrong date on the invitations? unless i missed something, the spauldings are still rich, aren't they? it's easy to lose track.
i've never been a huge...
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Jul.13.2009
Michael Jackson's death reminded me of a big thing back in the eighties. Back then, all shows used songs to enhance a storyline. Who could forget Lisa Hartman belting out "Never Surrender" for a religious show for Knots Landing, Ken George Jones writing the ballad "...
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