soap opera
June 15, 2009
- Last week's news that Crystal Chappell will be returning to Days of Our Lives pretty much assures that Guiding Light's 72-year run will end on September 18th. I say "pretty much" because to quote Yogi Berra, "it ain't over ‘til it's over." But, all things being equal... Anyway. I got to thinking about something I wrote in late March, as rumors of Guiding Light's imminent ...
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June 9, 2009
- It was exactly a year ago that I resumed watching One Life to Live. I liked what I saw in that first show, and have continued watching. While I've written a lot about OLTL (here, here, here and here ) over the past year, with the Jessica/Starr/Marcie baby drama coming to a close, now seemed like a good time to take a look back.And one of the reasons why OLTL continues to be a great soap opera ...
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June 4, 2009
- When I was talking about the ten “old friends” I’d like to see on Guiding Light the other day, I enjoyed the comments that followed and the dialogue about those old favorites. India was at the top of my list.As September gets closer, I’ll definitely be strolling down Springfield’s memory lane, and there’s one actor in particular who I thought merited an honorable mention. He was, as ...
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May 31, 2009
- Last week As the World Turns illustrated perfectly soap opera as the tattered macramé wall hanging I discussed last week. Memorial Day in Oakdale used to mean Bob raising the flag before the Hughes' family picnic. This year, no picnic, and while a couple of vets, Lisa and Barbara (who were involved in the Paul-Rosanna-Meg-Damien thing about which the less said the better), were seen, Susan ...
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May 29, 2009
- Do you have to act so gay? One More Reason to Love OtaliaThe soap world has been buzzing with news of Chris Engen's sudden departure from The Young and the Restless, where he's been doing such a bang-up job as Victor Newman's son, Adam. According to the rumor mill, Engen stormed off the set after refusing to play a scene which featured Adam kissing another male character, as part of a burgeoning ...
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May 27, 2009
- I am having some ongoing formatting problems. If this doesn't appear cleanly on your browser, you can see a perfectly formatted version of this exact article at: www.superherolunchbox.blogspot.com In case you were wondering what the big deal is about the normalization of racial and ethnic diversity in pop culture, reflect on this: President Obama's nominee for the next vacant seat on the ...
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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 21, 2009
- So the year I won my Emmy for Best Supporting Actress was the one year when they didn't televise it. I mean, they didn't televise the Emmy show in the very beginning because they figured we were daytime, and well, who cared? But once they figured out that a lot of people did care, they started televising it. Except for the year I won. I think what happened was, the show rotated ...
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May 20, 2009
- I’ve been procrastinating on writing a Bert Bauer blog. Well, that’s not really true. I wrote a 1,200-word blog about Bert last week. Only I didn’t save it correctly; when it didn’t appear in My Documents, I started to rock back and forth for a bit and wanted to bang my head on the wall. I knew I had to write it again, yet I resisted. After a while, I figured out why.It ...
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May 20, 2009
- "Test all things and hold fast to that which is good"1 Thessalonians 5:21In the gay vernacular, the terms "top" and "bottom" take on special meaning. Specifically, the Top is the partner who takes on a dominant role, while the Bottom is the partner who takes on a more submissive role. These terms need not be limited to the description of sexual roles. They can and ...
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