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Dec.13.2010
There was great excitement among As the World Turns fans when word leaked out that Julianne Moore would be briefly reprising her breakout role of Frannie Hughes. Her appearance was to celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Frannie’s father and step-mother (and aunt), Bob and Kim Hughes, which...
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Dec.08.2010
Media scholar, Henry Jenkins, is featuring a discussion of The Survival of Soap Opera on his blog Confessions of an Aca-Fan (aca as in academic).
I have asked the three editors of the book to help organize a forum to be conducted in four installments through this blog, bringing together some key...
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Dec.06.2010
or is it?
After my presentation at the Popular Culture Association conference this past April, I was asked if it might be better for the future of soap opera if, maybe, soap opera was called something else.
My immediate reaction was “absolutely not!” Calling it something else means those who...
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Nov.15.2010
My copy of Survival of Soap Opera… arrived on Friday. Of course, my first step, after reading through the full text of my essay, was to look for my name in the index. Most were footnotes referencing my essay. But nothing could have delighted me more than the footnote in C. Lee Harrington’s...
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Nov.08.2010
Survival of Soap Opera is now up on Google Books. Click here for a look my essay, “The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas.”
Of course, since you're supposed to buy the book, pages 126-128 are not shown:)
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Nov.08.2010
besides being “brilliant, but cancelled?”
ABC
Eli Stone
Dirty Sexy Money
Homefront
CBS
Joan of Arcadia
Brooklyn Bridge
NBC
American Dreams
Fox
Lone Star
WB
Jack and Bobby
CB
Privileged
An eclectic and idiosyncratic list to be sure, and in some cases, going back more than a few years, these are...
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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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Sep.14.2010
From the “Latin: Illegitimi non carborundum. In any language, easier said then done, especially when someone’s been at it a long time.
In all forms of serialized storytelling, be it daytime, primetime, or even comic books, there’s an inherent, and necessary, tension between those who create the...
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Sep.14.2010
It all began with Julie Pinson’s audition to replace Martha Byrne as Lily Snyder. While Executive Producer, Christopher Goutman, and Head Writer, Jean Passanante, didn’t think Pinson, late of Port Charles (where she worked with Barbara Bloom) and Days, was right for Lily (the role went to...
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Sep.13.2010
One of the best examples of multi generational storytelling over the past several years on As the World Turns, was Luke Snyder’s coming out.
It was Holden, the man who delivered (can’t remember the last soap opera baby who arrived in a hospital delivery room), and raised Luke (whose father is...
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Sep.12.2010
One of the most powerful stories Douglas Marland ever wrote was in 1990, when Margo Hughes disconnected her step-father (and Katie’s father), Casey Peretti, from life-support. Margo was charged with murder, and while she was eventually cleared, the incident created a serious rift between her...
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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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