By Marlena De Lacroix
When I was in high school I was noted for spending my afternoons watching soap operas and eating cole slaw. Decades later, I am sobbing … and I mean real big salty tears … into my slaw as As the World Turns is drawing to a close, heading to
With the end of […]
Posted on September 8th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Publicity whores! Marlena hates them! I’m so sorry that my otherwise carefree, wonderful summer was interrupted by my rants to friends visiting our summer cabin about how James Franco has taken over the daytime world this year. Not just with his repeated visits to General Hospital as Franco, but his egotistical appearances […]
Posted on August 11th, 2010 by admin
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For a full report on the Viva Las Vegas Daytime Emmys, read the post following this one by Marlena’s friend, TV columnist Ed Martin. But first …
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Due to a car malfunction, Moose, Nigel and I had to stay away an extra day this past Sunday, (delightfully) stranded in a cabin without a TV. (I made a fabulous salt-free dinner of Thai noodles with chicken […]
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
On Saturday, my husband Moose and I were driving on a back road through the Pennsylvania woods to have dinner at a very good restaurant. Suddenly a familiar tell-tale putrid smell entered the car.
Skunk!
I gasped and a few seconds later my eyes welled up in tears. No, the tears didn’t come from the intensity of the odor entering the car. They came from the stab of pure […]
Posted on June 8th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
When most longtime watchers get disenchanted or downright disgusted with their old soaps, they are usually angry. We’ve all invested years of our lives and our deep feelings in this genre.
Now, it’s gotten to the point where I’m not angry anymore. As we watch the final act of daytime soap opera, I just find myself very very sad […]
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
In Part 1 of this column, I used that great 1947 Broadway musical in which a mythical ancient town full of joy and real human goodness reappears and vanishes once a decade as a metaphor for the brief return of Lorraine Broderick as headwriter of All My Children.
Ms. Broderick’s self-chosen short-lived return represented a short sojourn back into a soap opera world that now exists […]
Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
I’ve had a lot of problems with One Life to Live over the last two years, but Kish (Kyle and Fish) was never one of them. The shocking write-off of these characters is wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels. Of all the ways this failing soap could be improved, dumping Kish […]
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
When I was a young girl my mother took me to City Center in Manhattan to see a revival of the 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon. In it, two American men on a trip to Scotland stumble upon a strange town, the Brigadoon of the title, from a
Can Agnes Nixon, who brought us […]
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Recently I was asked by a fan why I am not posting much anymore. Here’s why: Today on One Life to Live I watched a woman who had just delivered a baby graphically fall through ice and drown. Not three months ago I had watched a
Does any TPTB on soaps, so desperate for ratings, actually have any moral sense at […]
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by admin
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Connie, Anna and the late real Mr. Moose at the Museum of Natural History (above); The Nige (right)
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Happy New Year 2010, everyone! Hope you had as joyous a holiday season with your family and friends as Moose and I (a.k.a. Connie and Ed) did. My beloved step-daughter Laura and step-granddaughter Anna visited us here in Manhattan […]
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by admin
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