Happy New Year, mes chers!
Marlena toasts you with a glass of champagne, wishing only soaps that are good this year. Speaking of, so many of my Thinking Fans sent in their own Best and Worst picks for 2007, there’s barely room to post them all! I love the intelligence of them and appreciate how discerning all of […]
Posted on December 31st, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
You’ve read my soaps “Bests” list for 2007 in the post immediately below this one. Now, it’s your turn! Send moi your own picks for soaps Best and Worst 2007. Five choices total in any combination of Bests and Worsts, or 5 Bests or 5 Worsts would be about right. Try to […]
Posted on December 27th, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
I no longer do “Best” and “Worst” lists for soaps. After all, there have been so many “worsts” this year, why would I want to re-inflict the pain on you again? Moi loves mon readers. So, only the “bests” for you, darlings.
Posted on December 26th, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
On the very pre-Christmas Friday when ABC stabbed us in the eye with Georgie’s funeral on General Hospital, As the World Turns showed us that it remembered what Christmas, family, hope — and soaps — are all about. The ATWT holiday show was purely a gift to us — the fans! We, […]
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by admin
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By Patrick Erwin
I admit it — I’m feeling an awful lot like Ebenezer Scrooge this year. Even Saint Nick himself knows that soap fans have certainly had a lot of reasons to say “Bah humbug!”
Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by admin
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Cher Thinking Fans:
I wanted this Christmas message to be merrier, but alas, I’ve been sick for the last five days. Ever the trendsetter, I am the first among my friends and family to be downed by what the local newscasts have dubbed “Vicious Virus,” a miserable stomach flu that is sweeping New York City just […]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Whenever I talk about favorite old soaps with longtime soap fans, the conversation always ends the same way: “Weren’t soaps so much better then?”
We all yearn for yesterday. For many of us, soaps have been part of our lives for decades. It feels good to look back, just as it would looking at a […]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
Today Georgie Jones becomes the victim of a serial killer on General Hospital. We mourn not just because we’re losing a very intelligent, good-hearted teenager we’ve known from birth who could have grown to be a major heroine show anchor, like Jessie or Bobbie were in their day. We mourn because we’re losing a delightful actress in Lindze Letherman. We mourn […]
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by admin
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By Patrick Erwin
Days of Our Lives can be called many things, but “boring” is seldom one of them. The show’s twists, turns, and red herrings sometimes make The daVinci Code look like Dr. Seuss in comparison!
Posted on December 16th, 2007 by admin
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By Marlena De Lacroix
I am 100% behind the Writers Guild and their strike. I come from a union family — my late grand-aunts spent just about every Sunday of the 1930s-60s freezing their tushs off in Union Square participating in rallies and demonstrations supporting organized labor, honoring the working man. Solidarity forever!
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by admin
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