Guiding Light Project
October 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 interview with head of ABC Daytime, Brian Frons, posted on The Wall Street Journal website that ...
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September 21, 2009
- Lights up. NEWBIE and OLDTIMER are discussing the final days of Guiding Light.NEWBIEOkay. First question: who was that guy with the hat who came to see Alex?OLDTIMERThat was Fletcher Reade. He used to be married to Holly.NEWBIEHolly? The same Holly who went off with Dr. Ed?OLDTIMERYes, they -- NEWBIEAnd where did that come from? I had no idea they even knew each other. They barely said ...
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September 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 just by josh and reva, but by mindy and rick's wedding as well.so thanks to everyone associated with ...
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September 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 from the current opening to the one that started in 1952. 2:02: Dang! Is that Fletcher? He ...
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September 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 year history in ten and fifteen-minute segments respectively, it was a mixed bag. While the ...
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July 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 towards the end of Roger Thorpe’s (Michael Zaslow) reign of terror. He was staying at the ...
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July 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 respectfully disagree." I actually agree with a lot of what Lana had to say, particularly her ...
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July 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 fan of bill and lizzie as a couple, but what made this wedding work for me was the inclusion of so ...
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July 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 "Jillian" for Jill Coleridge on Ryan's Hope, or Bruce Willis singing "Do Wa Diddy Diddy to Cybill ...
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June 24, 2009
- With Guiding Light coming to an end, it’s time to pay tribute to something that many fans cursed sometimes, fast forwarded, and why soaps were created in the first place. Yes, I’m talking about The Commercials. Back in the thirties (thanks again to Robert LaGuardia’s Soap World for reference), radio during the weekdays was a wasteland. Anyone could come on and have a ...
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