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Sep.03.2008
to Helen Wagner, who celebrated her 90th yesterday. Thanks to Roger Newcomb at welovesoaps.blogspot.com (having technical problems and can't insert live links), who shared his memories of meeting Helen a few years ago, which, in turn, prompted me to share the first time I met her.
It was maybe...
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Sep.03.2008
Like Nelson Branco, I'd been holding off critiquing One Life to Live's recently-wrapped visit to 1968. But, while I've been distracted by the unfolding political drama of the past week, Nelson beat me to the punch, saying pretty much everything I had planned to here - you know what they say about...
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Sep.01.2008
if a soap headwriter dared try to pull this one off. but the 17 year-old daughter of republican vp candidate, sarah palin, is pregnant and planning to marry the father. while there is absolutely nothing funny about this situation, i must confess i had to supress a giggle when i realized that my...
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Sep.01.2008
Deep as I was in the unfolding drama of last week's Democratic National Convention, I kept my appointed, if eclectic, rounds, and not surprisingly, found a few connections between soap opera fans and the election. First, this posting on We Love Soaps:
When it comes to their TV viewing preferences...
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Aug.18.2008
Now that the dust seems to have settled in l'affair Hinsey (see my previous two posts), I took a couple of days to decompress ( I know I just took a short vacation; but even on the Cape, a house filled with nine adults and four children is a lot of fun, but not really what you'd call restful). So,...
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Aug.14.2008
I just packed away my hazmet gear after what I can only hope is my last visit to the cesspool into which l'affair Hinsey has descended. It looks as though the numbers have topped out at 1800+. Mostly dreck towards the end (I think a lot of people were hoping to round things up to 2000). But...
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Aug.11.2008
I had planned to ease my way back into the habit of writing after a bit of time off. Maybe start off by acknowledging (I hope not too belatedly) my second place showing in Red Room’s Housewarming Party; when I left for vacation, I was in third place, but by the time I returned, it was two women...
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Jul.30.2008
Well, I was right, Rick Decker is no James Stenbeck. On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Jon Prescott will be leaving As the World Turns at the end of August, comes casting news that has enormous potential for the show. The boards have been buzzing all day about the returns of Anthony...
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Jul.30.2008
I’m heading off for a short vacation. While I’m gone, here’s another of my plays, six of them actually, things left unsaid... six short stories. As in the previously posted Settling In, the characters in things also “talk themselves in and out of happiness and misery,” however, unlike the...
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Jul.29.2008
When I read about Colleen Zenk Pinter evoking Douglas Marland earlier this month, I was reminded of a comment I made almost exactly a year ago in the midst of a very long exchange sprawled over four blogs, "...although, dare I say that ATWT seems to be back on track. Let's hope I haven't...
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Jul.27.2008
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking through the archives at Snark Weighs In, and came across this very funny piece from March 2006 spoofing Soap Opera Weekly. Around the same time, MarkH sent me a note thanking me for an old SOW article I had posted. Mark went on to lament, "I sure miss the...
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Jul.22.2008
When General Hospital's Executive Producer, Gloria Monty, asked Anthony Geary to join the cast as Luke Spenser in 1978, he famously said, "I hate soap opera." To which Monty replied, "Honey, so do I. I want you to help me change all that." The exchange raises two obvious...
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Jul.20.2008
or the actor. In this case, it's As the World Turn's, Jon Hensley, who's been dodging bullets on the boards since last Thursday's (17 July) big reveal. (For those not up-to-date on this fakakta Carly-Holden storyline, look here and follow the links within.)
It's not that bad acting and bad writing...
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Jul.16.2008
Rule # 10 from Douglas Marland's "How Not to Wreck a Show:"
"Good soap opera is good storytelling. It's very simple."
First rule of creative writing:
"Show, don't tell."
Marland Rule # 6"
"Don't change a core character. You can certainly give them edges...
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Jul.13.2008
Regular readers will remember a little dust-up re my post, connecting the dots - the emmy episode... When I mentioned that All My Children's James Mitchell was gay, then chose not to engage John Trusi's disgraceful, not to mention, hypocritical, naming of names, but rather simply cite my sources, I...
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About lynn
critical observations about soap operas – their content, the industry that produces them, and the culture that both loves them and loves to ridicule them...
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