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Entertainment > TV Characters & Personalities Assessing the fate of soap opera actors

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Everyone loves to talk about the successful actors who got their start on soaps, especially the mainstream media. When they deign to write about soaps, this is often the first, and only positive thing they have to say. And just what does that say about actors who spend their entire career on soaps? That they're less talented,... More..

Entertainment > Television (Other) The different types of soap opera fans

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i think the real question here is the different types of soap operas. despite the fact that "soap operas" are most often lumped together as shorthand for shallow, badly-acted, over-the-top melodrama, historically, there have been distinct differences among soaps, as well as their fans.i would argue that those difference among... More..

Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends What makes primetime soap operas different from day time soap operas?

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I don't know why 1981 proved to be such a pivotal year for television. But the premiere of Hill Street Blues in January 1981 and the wedding of Luke and Laura on General Hospital that November marked the beginning of a profound shift for television programming, day and night. For primetime, the trajectory was up; In Glued to ... More..

Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Soap opera: Comparing the modern era with the original concept

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I've been checking in on a blog set up by Sam Ford for the class on The American Soap Opera he's teaching at MIT. The student comments touch on many of the aspects that underlie the current, sorry state of the American Soap Opera. Of course, being only a few weeks into the course, and from what I can tell, relatively new soap... More..

Entertainment > TV Characters & Personalities Why Anthony Geary did a soap opera when he said he'd never do one

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the timing here couldn't be better. abc is making a big deal of the upcoming 25th anniversary of luke and laura's wedding. the short answer to the initial question is that tony geary did general hospital because the late gloria montey (then executive producer of gh) asked him to. according to robert laguardia's "soap world," ... More..

Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends Comparing soap opera life to real life

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i have to laugh every time i see a snippet of a reality show: artificial people, contrived, so obviously scripted situations, hyped, exaggerated relationships - no subtlety, no nuance. yet, a powerful dramatic storyline on "as the world turns" in the early 1990s, so moved me that i asked the headwriter, the late douglas marla... More..

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1. Soap opera: Comparing the modern era with the original concept
2. What makes primetime soap operas different from day time soap operas?
3. Assessing the fate of soap opera actors
4. Comparing soap opera life to real life
5. The different types of soap opera fans
6. Why Anthony Geary did a soap opera when he said he'd never do one

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