soap operas
August 7, 2009
- I just finished Wicked Plants, the first Book Club pick for Red Room Staffers. Needless to say I love the book, but I'm always impressed with people who are experts at something. Be it plants, roses, Star Trek, books, long haired cats, movies, whatever. It makes me open my mouth a bit and say in admiration: "Wow." The great thing about Stewart's book is that it shows you how many ...
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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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October 15, 2008
- Gentle Readers, it's been a weird couple of weeks. The economy is wacky, the election is never going to end, and I've had a cold. Also, a couple of deaths have affected the soap opera community. First off, Irene Dailey died. She was Aunt Liz Matthews on Another World, but she was also well known creating the role of Nettie in the play The Subject was Roses. She lived in a town a hour from me, ...
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July 29, 2008
- Gentle Readers, something odd is about to end. We have no idea how it got here, and now it's going out into that good night. It's been a long strange trip. No, I'm not talking about George Bush's presidency! I'm talking about the soap opera, Passions. Yes, it's another soap blog. I'm like Michael Correlone when it comes to soaps; just when I think I'm out, they pull me ...
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July 23, 2008
- Larry Haines died last week. In case you didn't know who Larry Haines was, he was Stu Begman for thirty-five years on the soap opera Search For Tomorrow. When Jo (Mary Stuart) had troubles, he and his wife Marge would provide a joke, a cup of coffee and a friend. Although the character of Stu wasn't a comic one, he brought a comic sensibility to his role that was welcomed and probably needed ...
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July 18, 2008
- First off I want to thank many of you who have corrected me on some mistakes I made about Paul Rauch's varied career. I made corrections when need be on the blog in question. There was a lot of debate, however: He's great at what he does! No he's a jerk! No he's what soaps need right now! It made me want to go somewhere and drink. And then news came today from The Suds Report by Nelson Branco ...
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July 16, 2008
- I’ve been trying to keep my soap opera blogs at a minimum because honestly, it depresses me. Now writing about the classic age of soaps, heck get me started and a Bartle and Jaymes in me and I can chat about it for hours until you start to back away and say “Stay away from this girl! Stay far away!” However, I need to write a plea today, to The Young and the Restless. They just hired ...
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July 7, 2008
- It was thirty-three years ago today that a new show debuted on ABC. The first shot showed a young woman walking down the street in New York City. She wore a bright green shirt and a jeans skirt. She wore a button that said RYAN FOR COUNCILMAN. She had long brown hair and looked like a Gibson Girl. She walked with a purpose and someone yelled out her name “Hey, Mary! Mary Ryan!” She turned ...
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June 27, 2008
- Last month, one of the best actresses I ever saw on television died. Her name was Beverlee McKinsey. If you're not familiar to soap operas, you're probably scratching your head, wondering who she is. Beverlee McKinsey created two popular characters in soap operas: the Daddy loving, stepmother hating Iris Cory Carrington on Another World and Texas, and Baroness Alexandra Spaulding Von Halkein ...
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May 4, 2008
- Tomorrow is May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, and I’m thinking of one of my favorite writers. His name was Douglas Marland. Now you might be scratching your head, thinking “That’s odd, I never heard of him. What books did he write?” He didn’t write books. Let me tell you what he wrote.Douglas Marland was born Marland Messner in 1935. He didn’t start out as a writer, but as an ...
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