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lynn liccardo playwright and soap opera critic

lynn liccardo
Lynn Liccardo
somerville, ma
Member since: May, 2008
Last login: 06/28/2009
Last update : 06/30/2009
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About Me

  • After graduating from Harvard University in 1983 with an undergraduate degree in humanities, I began writing about nursing. My articles appeared in The Boston Globe, Revolution: The Journal for Nurse Empowerment, and Soap Opera Weekly, where I published a piece on how nurses are portrayed on soap operas and then shifted my focus to writing about soaps.

lynn_liccardo's Blog

  • guiding light project: if life is like a box of chocolates…

    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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  • a sight for sore eyes...

    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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  • guiding light project: with the clarity of hindsight…

    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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  • annual checkup…

    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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  • don’t tell me, show me…

    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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Reviews I've Written

  • Read with highlighter...

    November 3, 2008
    This is a title that I could not resist when choosing books for the Housewarming Party prize. It is a book meant to be read many times.

  • Why’d a nice girl like you go and get a tattoo?

    October 26, 2008
    The unarticulated question running through Chick Lit: 40 Stories of Tattoos and the Women Who Wear Them: “Why’d a nice girl like you go and get a tattoo?” Thankfully, not one of the essayists re
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