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Jul.16.2008
I’ve been trying to keep my soap opera blogs at a minimum because honestly, it depresses me. Now writing about the classic age of soaps, heck get me started and a Bartle and Jaymes in me and I can chat about it for hours until you start to back away and say “Stay away from this girl! Stay far away...
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Jun.27.2008
Last month, one of the best actresses I ever saw on television died. Her name was Beverlee McKinsey. If you're not familiar to soap operas, you're probably scratching your head, wondering who she is. Beverlee McKinsey created two popular characters in soap operas: the Daddy loving, stepmother...
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Jun.16.2008
Back in 1994, it might have been the 6th of June, I was in my bedroom deeply immersed in an episode of Guiding Light. Where I was watching mattered, because that television didn't have a VCR, so I can't go to the video. But even as I was watching, I realized that it was one of the best hours of...
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Jun.11.2008
After last week's inescapable explosion of gushing over the new and improved One Life to Live, I decided it was time to set aside my innate skepticism and have a look. So I programmed the DVR to record the Sunday afternoon block of episodes. But when I started to watch, what had recorded was two...
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Jun.04.2008
In 1981, daytime soaps began a transformation that over the past twenty-five years has profoundly changed the genre. At first glance, the process was set in motion by the wedding of General Hospital’s Luke and Laura. But the real story began back in 1978 when General Hospital was on the verge of...
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May.04.2008
Tomorrow is May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, and I’m thinking of one of my favorite writers. His name was Douglas Marland. Now you might be scratching your head, thinking “That’s odd, I never heard of him. What books did he write?” He didn’t write books. Let me tell you what he wrote.
Douglas...
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Apr.30.2008
The daytime Emmys are being announced today on The View, honoring the best of soap operas. This is the first time in a long while where I don’t care who is going to be nominated.
I should explain. Ever since I was a kid, I watched the soaps. Yes, I know the PC term now is “Daytime Dramas” but to...
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