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
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 14 Comments »
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
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 20 Comments »
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
Filed under: All My Children, As the World Turns, General Hospital, MARLENA, One Life to Live, Young and the Restless | 39 Comments »
By Ed Martin
One Life to Live showed me something last week that I haven’t seen in 30 years of soap viewing: A mass wedding of two dozen gay couples. This show has pushed the envelope in a number of crazy ways since the ‘70s, sending its characters to heaven, to an underground city and careening […]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: GUESTS, One Life to Live | 3 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
1. Isn’t it most curious that two of the most intelligent women characters in daytime — Dr. Marty Saybrooke on One Life to Live and fashion mogul Jackie M on The Bold and the Beautiful – have gone from brunette to blonde in the last few months? Fashion, or just another attempt by the networks/shows to “dumb down” smart female characters? […]
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: All My Children, As the World Turns, Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, MARLENA, One Life to Live | 9 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
I usually don’t read a lot of previews or spoilers. But what I’ve seen this week and what I’ve read for the rest of the month of September alarms me. The ABC soaps seem to think its sweeps month, staging stunts and attention-getting storylines that are de rigueur in crucial ratings-measuring months. […]
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: All My Children, General Hospital, MARLENA, One Life to Live | 12 Comments »
Thinking Fans argue pros and cons of OLTL’s Grey Gardens spoof: Marilyn Henry applauds, “It never occurred to me it was anti-woman at all. I was happy to see two of the show’s vets get a big chunk of air time in an imaginative bit of spoofiness” … while Steve says, “This spoof fell flat for […]
Posted on August 4th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 27 Comments »
Thinking Fans defend Dorian, too: Rebecca demands, ”Dorian has always been a great soap villainess. I have a big problem thinking that she actually was in her cups at the party she hosted for Markko — as we all know, soap villains do not lose control. I want the indomitable, formidable woman that Dorian is back on screen, giving no quarter […]
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 16 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
Bonjour, everyone! I’m sorry I haven’t posted in many weeks. As you know, my mother passed away. It happened amid the frenzy of the end of spring semester, at the end of a long academic year. I need the summer to recharge, so I’m going on relaxed summer mode until the Daytime Emmys […]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live, Young and the Restless | 20 Comments »
PART TWO OF TWO PARTS
In Part Two, James DePaiva talks about being Max, then not being Max; about the joys of family life; about being angry for a long time, and about dealing with those destructive “shoulds.”
By Damon L. Jacobs
D: Now, you mentioned being terribly shy. But I remember when Max came back One Life in 1992, the […]
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: One Life to Live, SOAP SHRINK | 11 Comments »
