fool me once, shame on you…

Lynn Liccardo — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:47:00 -0600

fool me twice, shame on me... fool me...

identification...

Lynn Liccardo — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:16:10 -0600

When my cable provider added SOAPNet a couple of years ago, I finally had a chance to see Ryan's Hope. The episodes airing then were from 1980, about five years into the show's 14-year run.

a recommendation...

Lynn Liccardo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:27:43 -0600

Sam Ford asked me to pass along information about a great conference taking place next week in Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT's 3rd Futures of Entertainment. I attended both previous FoEs, and fou

not exactly what i had in mind…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:10:20 -0500

For a the past few years, primetime soaps have provided a real refuge for fans disenchanted with the current state of daytime soaps.

review just posted

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:50:39 -0500

in my previous post, i mentioned that i would be posting reviews of the books from my housewarming party prize.

a box of books landed on my doorstep yesterday...

Lynn Liccardo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:33:48 -0500

the first part of my 2nd place prize in the red room housewarming party.

bits and pieces…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:04:50 -0500

Tom Casiello recently posted read more

election 2008: let’s pretend it really is a soap opera…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:11:08 -0500

It's not as though I've been going out of my way to find analogies between the 2008 election and soaps. But some have been hard to miss.

in a funk...

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:24:07 -0500

Like my Red Room colleague, Jennifer Gibbons, I've been in a bit of a funk of late and haven't felt much

democrats 2008: the great american soap opera writ large…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:21:29 -0500

I generally resist, indeed reject, the term soap opera when it's used as shorthand for those cheap and melodramatic plot twists that define soap opera as an adjective (read more

republicans 2008: the great american soap opera as subtext…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:04:47 -0500

You have to hand it to the Republicans. They really do understand soap opera - the short story arc, the long story arc, the need for characters with compelling back stories.

a slightly belated happy birthday...

Lynn Liccardo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:56:32 -0500

to Helen Wagner, who celebrated her 90th yesterday.

nineteen sixty-eight: more than enough…

Lynn Liccardo — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:44:30 -0500

Like Nelson Branco, I'd been holding off critiquing One Life to Live's recently-wrapped visit to 1968.

we'd be rolling our eyes in disdain....

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:17:53 -0500

if a soap headwriter dared try to pull this one off. but the 17 year-old daughter of republican vp candidate, sarah palin, is pregnant and planning to marry the father.

election 2008 and the soap opera fan…

Lynn Liccardo — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:40:56 -0500

Deep as I was in the unfolding drama of last week's Democratic National Convention, I kept my appointed, if eclectic, rounds, and not surprisingly, found a few connections between soap opera fans a