http://marlenadelacroix.com Let's Talk Soaps Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:53:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=324 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=323 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 ... ____________________________________  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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=321 By Ed Martin One could find worse ways to spend a lazy summer evening than watching a live awards show from Las Vegas featuring many current top acts from shows along the strip. But when I sat down to watch CBS' presentation of the 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday I was ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=322 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=320 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=319 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=318 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=317   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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=316 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 ... http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=315