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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  Soap Opera
Soap operas are of two basic narrative types: "open" soap operas, in which there is no end point toward which the action of the narrative moves; and "closed" soap operas, in which, no matter how attenuated the process, the narrative does eventually close.
Thus the soap opera has been the most easily parodied of all broadcasting genres, and its presumed audience most easily stereotyped as the working-class "housewife" who allows the dishes to pile up and the children to run amuck because of her "addiction" to soap operas.
Despite the fact that the soap opera is demonstrably one of the most narratively complex genres of television drama whose enjoyment requires considerable knowledge by its viewers, and despite the fact that its appeals for half a century have cut across social and demographic categories, the term continues to carry this sexist and classist baggage.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/soapopera/soapopera.htm   (5947 words)

  
 TV Soap Opera Genre
The soap opera genre originated in American radio serials of the 1930s, and owes the name to the sponsorship of some of these programmes by major soap powder companies.
Soaps are frequently derided by some critics for being full of clichés and stereotypes, for having shoddy sets, for being badly acted, trivial, predictable and so on.
The audience for such soaps does include men, but some theorists argue that the gender identity of the viewer is 'inscribed' in programmes, and that typically with soaps the inscribed viewer has a traditional female gender identity.
www.aber.ac.uk /media/Modules/TF33120/soaps.html   (4014 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Loving (soap opera)
The soap opera Loving aired on ABC from June 27, 1983 to November 10, 1995.
Long-running characters included Ava (played by Roya Megnot and then Lisa Peluso), a schemer whose adventures ranged from stuffing a pillow in her dress to simulate pregnancy to being kidnapped at Universal Studios to being menaced by her lover's identical twin, Gilbert.
Loving characters Steffi (Amelia Heinle), Ally (Laura Wright), Alex (Randolph Mantooth), Angie (Debbi Morgan), Buck (Phillip Brown), Jacob (Darnell Williams), and Tess (Catherine Hickland) moved to Soho and began a new series, The City, which would run until March 1997.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Loving-(soap-opera)   (500 words)

  
 Soap Opera Article
Soaps are all wet, but not washed up: The industry is bubbling over with plans for the future.
Real-life sagas that regularly unfold on talk shows and cable's 24-hour news channels--not to mention the ongoing presidential impeachment drama--have hurt the networks' 11 soaps, which have lost a stunning 33 percent of their viewers since 1991.
Last month, the network began an intensive yearlong "psychographic" study of soap viewers, the findings of which they will feed to their writers and producers, to help tailor the shows to the soap freak of the future.
members.shaw.ca /almosthuman73/soaparticle01.html   (989 words)

  
 Essay Depot - Soap Opera Genre
Television soap operas are long-running serials traditionally based on the close study of personal relationships within the everyday life of its characters.
Soaps are a consistent set of values based on personal relationships, on women’s responsibility for the maintenance of these relationships and the applicability of the family model to structures.
Soap operas are pleasurable because they do not surprise the audience or try to change attitudes.
www.essaydepot.com /essayme/18/index.php   (2748 words)

  
 Soap Opera Fan . . . Passions!
She loves that everyone is in pain: Sheridan, Theresa, Gwen, and Pilar.
Martin says he can’t do that, he can’t betray their love.
They flirt with one another and think about making love earlier when they heard the odd clap of thunder that everyone else in Harmony did.
www.soapoperafan.com /passions/lastsum.html   (8066 words)

  
 Soap Opera Central News | An In-Depth Look at DAYS' Serial Killer and Its Impact On All The Soaps
Soap Opera Central has been on the case, following every firing related to the serial killer storyline.
Below is a listing of which cast members have been affected by the slayings, accompanied by links to full Soap Opera Central news coverage of their dismissals.
The statement was subsequently removed from the web site, but Soap Opera Central has confirmed that the actor is still leaving the show.
www.soapcentral.com /soapcentral/news/2003/1117-serialkiller.php   (1239 words)

  
 Noelle Beck - Loving - Soap Opera Digest and Weekly
In 1991, Soap Opera Digest put out a special wedding issue in which newlywed Noelle Beck shared memories of her big day...
The soaps tend to stay around longer than a lot of the nighttime series anyway.
Soap Opera Digest is the insiders' guide to daytime.
www.soapoperadigest.com /features/catchingup/noellebeck/index2.html   (613 words)

  
 SOAP OPERA DIGEST
Crystal Chappell loves playing well-intentioned schemer Olivia Spencer on Guiding Light, but these days, another occupation has captured the actressís heart: her 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week role as mother to Jacob Walker Sabatino, her son with husband and soon-to-be-costar Michael Sabatino (Vince; ex-Jonathan, AMC; ex-Lawrence, Days).
I never realized that it was possible to love anyone or anything so deeply.î Below, Chappell shares her thoughts on mothering, her characterís meddlesome ways, and the -- ahem -- physical changes that go with being a new mom.
But there are huge Josh and Reva fans, especially on the Internet, that are doing what they love to do, which is fight and root for their favorite couple.
www.bethsdayspage.com /days/transcripts/crystalsodarticle7.00.html   (1876 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Magazine Subscriptions: Soap Opera Weekly [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As a previous reviewer said, Soap Opera Weekly lost some of its bite when its original editor was fired.
Supplement this with Soap Opera Digest and you've pretty much got all the news you need to know about what's happening in the daytime world of television.
I'm a big fan of NBC's "Passions" and Soap Opera Weekly has done a great job pitching Jim Reilly's wacky and wonderful soap from its infancy in 1999 to its present day status as one of the most unique soaps on the air.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005N7UV?v=glance   (932 words)

  
 Soap Opera Digest & Weekly Homepage
Soap Opera Weekly is looking for a few soap-loving interns to join us this fall.
When you see this icon at the end of a Soap Opera Digest magazine story, this is the place where you'll find related Web information....
When you see this icon at the end of a Soap Opera Weekly magazine story, this is the place where you'll find related Web information....
www.soapoperadigest.com   (641 words)

  
 SOAP OPERA DIGEST
I've said it before, and I think it bears repeating, that playing the good girl on soaps means stifling impulses that you would otherwise have.
Being a bad girl on a soap means indulging impulses that you normally wouldn't.
I think after they'd had sex for the first time, and were discussing their honeymoon, and thinking in the voiceover, each how they were going to kill the other, I loved that moment.
www.igs.net /~awhp/chat64.html   (3944 words)

  
 Peter Brown Soap Opera Star
FROM HORSE OPERA TO After the decline of TV Westerns, Peter Brown found a home in daytime TV.
Like most soap actors, he moved among a number of different series.
From what little we know about the soaps, it seems those roles involve playing either the good patriarchs who don't have much to do or the bad patriarchs who keep their evil just this side of major felonies so they can continue their roles.
www.peterbrown.tv /soap.html   (360 words)

  
 entertainment.iafrica.com | news Soap operas new weapon to fight Aids
Viwe is the richest girl in town, bred on indulgence and money but hides a secret that her South African soap opera-loving audience suspects could only be Aids.
Viwe is a character from the television drama Tsha Tsha, which is one of a growing number of television and radio dramas worldwide successfully educating soap fans about the risks of Aids and sexual diseases.
In Cambodia the message is achieved through the steamy Punishment of Love television soap.
entertainment.iafrica.com /news/335132.htm   (621 words)

  
 SOAP OPERA DIGEST
And when she finally realized that it was, there was a very touching moment where Grant regressed into his previous life with Vicky and was treating her as the first lady, and the character of Vicky was taken along for the ride in his fantasy.
It was the chance to show his love for her.
I would love to see Grant open up and tell her that she was the only woman he's ever truly loved.
www.igs.net /~awhp/chat60.html   (3369 words)

  
 Harry's Soap Opera
Kate, Harry's wife was addicted to soap operas.
Harry thought this made a lot of sense, especially when he remembered that it was just after Stephanie their youngest left home that Kate had got hooked on the soaps.
He was a loving good husband, but he learned from years of experience that if you said the wrong thing to a crying woman, she would cry louder and longer!
www.internationalwoman.net /storyengland.htm   (942 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Soap Opera Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Readers will find the history and stars of all the shows, including backstage anecdotes,year-by-year ratings and a who's who with cast lists of all the featured actors and behind-the-scenes personalities.Comprehensive and completely accessible, The Soap Opera Encyclopedia is the one and only reference to nearly 100 soaps from the first 50 years of TV.
It seems he has plenty of respect for the soaps as well as the readers who have been waiting for a new encyclopedia for years.
With biograhies on certain soap opera legends and 46 years of Neilsen ratings of all the soaps.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061011576?v=glance   (794 words)

  
 Jessica Steen Soap Opera Update Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If you blinked, you probably missed Steen's short-lived soap career.
It should have said 1991--George C.), she filled in for a pregnant Noelle Beck on LOVING.
Her television credits include roles on episodes of ER, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL and EARTH 2, and in January, she appeared as a history teacher in the TV movie "Principal Takes A Holiday." She's currently at work on the summer movie "Armageddon," starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton.
www.jessicasteen.com /art_soapopup.html   (95 words)

  
 Soap Opera Serials
When she summoned Dr. Alex McLean to explain the possibilities of an operation to restore the blood supply to his lower abdomen and make sex possible, Jack believed the plot against him was thickening.
Loving Mary was the closest he’d ever come to truly feeling and it scared the hell out of him.
She loved him in return, she wanted to share everything, especially her family, with him.
www.totallykate.com /soserial/sosart5.html   (1010 words)

  
 SOAP OPERA VIDEO-
Choose a soap or series and discover which episodes are available for you to trade or exchange.
Most of the soaps are not only in English, but also in Spanish, French, Italian and German.
Please, check if your favourite soap moment is in these tapes and enjoy remembering all those magic moments that soap operas have always been offering us.
www.angelfire.com /80s/cultsoaps/soap.htm   (151 words)

  
 Soap Opera Serials
It could calm worried minds, soothe testy tempers, even stitch a broken heart or two, Mary believed, so when she ran up against Jack Fenelli, she never doubted for an instant that her love was strong enough to save a man who’d stood a lonely vigil against it for 38 years.
While Johnny Ryan sputtered and fumed in the background, Mary martialed every ounce of her self-control and tried to be polite, explaining to the embarrassed Christine that this was just another ploy of Jack’s to prove that he cared not at all for her or their child.
The beginning of the end of Mary’s love for him was there in her pain-filled eyes.
www.totallykate.com /soserial/sosart6.html   (1057 words)

  
 SD-1.net: Alias Discussion -> Soap Opera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
That was sweet, and sexy, and romantic, and funny,.....and hey, that describes Eric Weiss perfectly!!!! Loved his inner dialogue, love the soap opera reference throughout.
It said so much about his fear of hoping for too much, of being unworthy of her attention, his lack of self-confidence when it comes to love and more precisely "being loved." That's one of the things that touches me the most about Weiss' character.
And I loved that he only needed a little prompting (well ok, a lot of prompting) and then things started to click in his head.
sd-1.net /index.php?showtopic=31933   (4646 words)

  
 Soap Opera Digest Letters
Admirers of Guiding Light's Danny and Michelle didn't appreciate Rick's methods of "brotherly love" when he kidnapped Michelle to keep her away from Danny.
It would be great to see her actually fall in love with him.
The storyline has many different possibilities: Michelle can find herself falling in love with Danny, and Drew could finally get her wish to be with Jesse.
members.fortunecity.com /rustlingsheets/sodl.html   (518 words)

  
 Soap Opera Weekly Letters
I loved Budig as Michelle, and I was indeed skeptical of Lenz taking over the role, since she was clone Reva.
My favorite soap opera is Guiding Light because of Danny and Michelle -- the Luke and Laura of the '90s.
This storyline is pure, classic soap opera, and I for one, am loving every electrically charged moment.
members.fortunecity.com /rustlingsheets/sowl.html   (1188 words)

  
 Fascinating Facts about Days Actors (D-J)
She would love to have a regular segment on a TV talk show, either cooking or making things.
Lori was on the Canadian soap opera Loving Friends and Perfect Couples in the early 80s.
Drake was the first male soap star ever to guest on The Tonight Show.
www.bethsdayspage.com /days/factsdj.html   (4606 words)

  
 current soap opera discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The forum is for the general discussion of what's occuring in soap operas today including all classic soaps still on the air with the additions of Port Charles, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Passions.
Discussions of specific periods of a soap opera's history and soap operas no longer on the air should occur in their own forums.
Posters violating these rules will have their posts deleated and will be banned from posting.
p103.ezboard.com /ftheclassicsoapoperaforumfrm4   (173 words)

  
 Soap Opera Trivia
A: The Bold and the Beautiful, B: Love is a Many Splendored Thing, C: The Edge of Night, D: One Life to Live
As of 2004, what was the only soap opera to simulcast in a Spanish language track for Hispanic viewers in the United States?
What cancelled soap opera revolved around a large Irish-American family living in the Riverside district of New York City?
www.usefultrivia.com /tv_trivia/soap_opera_trivia_index.html   (310 words)

  
 The Gage Brigade - Soap Opera Digest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Randolph Mantooth - SOAP OPERA DIGEST (March 15, 1994)
His Dream Date Would Be: "Somebody that I absolutely fell in love with across the room.
She has to be bright, intelligent and sexy.
www.thegagebrigade.com /article2.htm   (362 words)

  
 Loving
Loving is a 1945 novel by Henry Green.
Loving is also the name of an ABC soap opera.
Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/loving.html   (71 words)

  
 Elizabeth Mitchell Central - Intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Clause in "Santa Clause 3", which is scheduled to start filming in November.
Mitchell first graced us with her presence in 1994 when she starred in the soap opera Loving.
From that moment on, this dynamic and talented actress effectively captured our attention and our hearts with guest starring roles in Cosby Mysteries, Dangerous Curves, The Sentinel, JAG, and Time of Your Life.
www.elizabethmitchellcentral.com   (211 words)

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