patrick erwin
August 4, 2009
- The past few weeks I've been having hard time writing. With Guiding Light's end looming large, there's a long term project I've been struggling to get my arms around. Then there's the oppressive heat that finally arrived after weeks of relentless rain. And now that Nina Tassler's (CBS President of Entertainment) comments to the Television Critics Association meeting have begun the official ...
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July 7, 2009
- Amidst the shit storm surrounding Guiding Light’s Natalia finding out she’s pregnant 19 weeks after she and Frank slept together (I know I keep perseverating about the 19 weeks, but 19 weeks and not even a hint? Really?), were a couple of things that caught my eye, in a good way. First, as ridiculous as Father Ray’s advice to Natalia – my favorite was Natalia's question about ...
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May 25, 2009
- I came across the following description of Irna Phillips’ storytelling Ruth Warrick attributed to Ted Corday: “an uncanny ability to tie the largest number of knots in the shortest possible piece of string.” The textile analogy is apt: the more texture, the better an item looks and feels – and the more it costs. The price of Persian rugs increases with the number of knots per square inch; ...
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May 1, 2009
- along with jennifer gibbons, patrick erwin and harley jane kozak, i'll be discussing red room's guiding light project with robert reid at blog talk radio.here's the link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/robertreidshow (time shown is your local time) hope you can tune in.
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February 26, 2009
- blog wise, it's been a pretty good week. yesterday, good friend roger newcomb at "we love soaps" named me one of the "top 10 blogs for soap fans." i'm in some pretty good company, including several fellow bloggers i cite frequently -- sara bibel, tom cassiello and patrick erwin. take a look at the others: http://www.blogs.com/topten/top-10-blogs-for-soap-fans/index.html.and ...
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September 29, 2008
- Like my Red Room colleague, Jennifer Gibbons, I've been in a bit of a funk of late and haven't felt much like writing. Like Jennifer, the election and the economy are sapping my energy. Then my 92-year old uncle died and two days later Paul Newman. So...But that's real life. Then there are the soaps. A couple of weeks ago, Soap Opera Digest published an interview with CBS Daytime Vice-President, ...
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July 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 days when that magazine ran articles of that quality." So, while Snark's spoof made me laugh, ...
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July 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 they didn't have before, or give them a logical reason to change their behavior. But when the ...
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