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June 28, 2009
- then soap opera is like hollandaise sauce. Making hollandaise is tricky business. It's an emulsion, and you have to keep whisking; add the butter to the eggs too quickly, the whole thing separates and falls apart. And so it is with how soap opera viewers suspend disbelief. The very nature of soaps demands more of viewers than other dramatic media when it comes to suspending disbelief. It's a ...
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June 24, 2009
- waylaid by another project this week, so i won't get to a proper post until the weekend. but i just want to say "welcome back" to peter simon's ed bauer on guiding light. watching his scenes today with grant aleksander's phillip reminded me of everything this show used to be. and they were real scenes, with real conversation, and moments that resonated with subtext and history. even ...
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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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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 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 20, 2009
- My final entry in this season's primetime scorecard (renewal for Castle and Better Off Ted; cancellation for The Unusals) is Privileged. I don't think I've written about Privlleged before, but I was really pulling for this show. Like the first season of Dirty Sexy Money, Privileged was a primetime soap about the filthy rich; but the storytelling was grounded in honest portrayals of the ...
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May 18, 2009
- ain't bad as the Meat Loaf song went. ABC's been taking a lot of flak on the boards (and from me here) for their itchy trigger finger when it comes to canceling quirky, well-written, character-driven shows. This year's been so bad that some were referring to the network as Already Been Cancelled. So I was pleased to hear that ABC has renewed two of midseason replacements that had caught my ...
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May 12, 2009
- Since I posted last month on soap interruptions, I had to laugh when I came across this little nugget last week, Grey's Tornado. Apparently, an affiliate breaking into primetime for a weather alert is newsworthy because viewers were pissed off - something like "man bites dog." Now of course, for soap fans, it's more like "dog bites man." I mean, can you imagine if newspapers ...
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May 5, 2009
- I had forgotten that today was Douglas Marland's birthday. But as I watched today's episode of As the World Turns, it occurred to me that perhaps the writers had not. There were actually parts (not all, but yes, plural) of today's episode that echoed the best of Marland - in fact, it may have been most of the episode. And it's been a good long time since that happened.I've never had much use for ...
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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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April 27, 2009
- This Friday, 1 May, will mark a month since CBS announced it was canceling Guiding Light (and, for what it’s worth, Friday also marks the first anniversary of my first post here at Red Room). When Jennifer Gibbons asked me to be a part of RR’s Guiding Light Project, I wasn’t sure where I would begin. I was in diapers when GL premiered (on television:). And while it was my mother’s show ...
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April 21, 2009
- to bring you... It's only April, and so far 2009's been a rough year for viewers in the New York metropolitan area who watch Guiding Light on WCBS. Last week, it was live coverage of the installation of a new archbishop that enraged GL fans in general, Otalia fans in particular. Actually, I think it was the press conference preceding the ceremony - doesn't matter. Earlier, Phillip Spaulding's ...
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April 19, 2009
- who's been taking some hits on the blogsphere for his comments to Soap Opera Digest regarding the cancellation of Guiding Light. In particular: It's a damn shame that this show is gone, as it's still a damn shame that ANOTHER WORLD is gone. The flip side of it is that you cannot reinvent the wheel. Not to name names, but in desperate times, desperate measures are sometimes the worst things to ...
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April 15, 2009
- so much more to write on this that will have to wait until next week. and i don't mean this to sound nitpicky; i know they've been cramming in jessica leccia's scenes before she leaves to have her baby. of course, i may be the only one who noticed...but it's a real tribute to the power of great storytelling and the acting chops of both crystal chapell and jl on today's episode of guiding light ...
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