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July 2, 2009
- Huntington’s blog today reminded me of my name. Jennifer, as many of you know, was the most popular name in the galaxy during the early 70’s. Who can we thank for this? Ali MacGraw, ladies and gentlemen! In 1970 MacGraw was in Love Story, where she was the lovely swearing Jenny who fell for Oliver Barrett the Fourth played by Ryan O’Neal. They got married, survived on her teaching ...
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June 25, 2009
- I have to make a confession: I was never a Charlie’s Angels fan. Sure I watched it, but I wasn’t obsessive like some people. I never had the dolls, never had notebooks with them on the cover, never obsessed over them, nothing. Yet anyone who grew up in the seventies and eighties knew about Farrah Fawcett. Farrah was everywhere. She was jogging on the cover ...
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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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June 21, 2009
- Summer Solstice, New York City By the end of the longest day of the year he could not stand it, he went up the iron stairs through the roof of the building and over the soft, tarry surface to the edge, put one leg over the complex green tin cornice and said if they came a step closer that was it. Then the huge machinery of the earth began to work for his life, the cops came in their ...
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June 17, 2009
- Katherine Phillips Hughes died two weeks ago. I know the name doesn’t sound familiar, but she was a part of a dynasty, a soap opera dynasty. She helped start a career of an actress, who would later win an Oscar. While she wasn’t directly involved with Guiding Light, her death adds to the end of an era of soap operas.Katherine Phillips Hughes was adopted by Irna Phillips. Back in the ...
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June 12, 2009
- Today would’ve been Anne Frank’s 80th birthday. Had she not died of typhus in 1945, I believe she would’ve gone on to write books, raised a family. Today, especially with recent events in Washington D.C. and in Kansas, her words need to be heard by everyone: Sunday, June 14, 1942I'll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday ...
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May 28, 2009
- Gentle Readers, it’s that time of year again. When the best and brightest head to Washington D.C. to face challenges, do their best, and succeed beyond imagination. No, I’m not talking about a new session of Congress! It’s the Scripps Spelling Bee! Yup, the Scripps Spelling Bee, where children across the country go to spell hard words and become stars. It’s ...
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May 25, 2009
- On May 25, 1979 Etan Patz got to walk to school all by himself. However, he never got to school and was declared dead in 2001. He would've been 36 today.The Missing Boy(for Etan Patz)Every time we take the busmy son sees the picture of the missing boy.He looks at it like a mirror - the darkblond hair, the pale skin,the blue eyes, the electric-blue sneakers withslashes of jagged gold. But of ...
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May 24, 2009
- In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold ...
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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 17, 2009
- I subscribe to the videos of the fab Pat Montandon. I had the honor of watching this video tonight, and I want to share it with everyone here:http://www.redroom.com/video/message-gratitude-red-roomPat, we are lighting candles for you tonight, and we are sending you good thoughts.
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May 15, 2009
- One of the grand things about working at Red Room is that I get to share good news about many of our authors. This week I am so happy to announce that many of our authors and members are winning prizes or being nominated for their wonderful writing! Sandy Nathan won the 2009 Nautilus Silver Award for her fantasy novel Numenon, and is now in the running for a Gold Medal. According to their ...
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May 10, 2009
- Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, daughters, and sons! (Hope I'm not leaving anyone out)It's time to salute the best mom's in literature, films, and television. The moms we loved, the moms we admired, the moms that made our hearts sing. Join me, won't you.... Marmee March, Little WomenIt's not easy for Marmee March; be it her husband fighting in the Civil War, Beth sick with Scarlet ...
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May 6, 2009
- When I announced the Guiding Light Project two weeks ago, I had no idea the response I was going to get. Sure, I knew people would be excited about it, but it has caught on like wildfire. Roger Newcomb has mentioned the project several times in his blog We Love Soaps. Patrick Erwin gave me a shout out on his other blog. Robert Reid on Blog Talk Radio interviewed Lynn Liccardo and me about ...
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May 1, 2009
- Happy May Day to everyone today! And happy birthday to Judy Collins, who turns seventy today! That feels so odd to write, that Judy Collins is seventy. To me she’s always the same age in her mid thirties, singing the alphabet song with Mr. Snuffalugus. I’m reminded of the line in the Simon and Garfunkel’s song “Old Friends” when they sing “How terribly strange to be ...
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