By Marlena De Lacroix
Have you boarded the One Life to Live lifeboat yet? Judging from the letters I’ve received in the last three weeks from readers like Esther, Cherry, Marilyn and DSO, even the most discerning and stubborn of Marlena’s Thinking Fans seem to be boarding. They’re in hope it’s the one show that can […]
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 22 Comments »
By Damon L. Jacobs
Days of Our Lives‘ Sami and her twin brother were born into a loving intact family. Her father was on the police force, her mother was a psychiatrist, her doting older half-sister loved her. What could possibly go wrong?
More like what DIDN’T go wrong! In her childhood alone, Sami (played by Alison […]
Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Days of Our Lives, SOAP SHRINK | 5 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
The star of the 2008 Emmys was a body part your mother blushingly called your “backside.” Stars couldn’t stop talking about derrieres, and wound up acting a lot like them.
“Oh, oh, I love your butt, what a cute little butt, I’d take that cute little butt,” All My Children’s Rebecca Budig (Greenlee) […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2008 by admin
Filed under: All My Children, General Hospital, Guiding Light, MARLENA, Young and the Restless | 19 Comments »
By Damon L. Jacobs
Look into his eyes. Those deep blue eyes. There you may see a man who has great capacity for warmth, generosity and concern for his family and community.
Look a little deeper, however, and you will also see anger, bitterness and an intense fear of being inferior to others.
But let’s back up a […]
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Guiding Light, SOAP SHRINK | 4 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
I’m not overly excited about this week’s Daytime Emmys. I could be fluffy and say it’s because they moved the ceremony to L.A. several years ago and I don’t get to go and to buy a dress, and to me (I attended here in New York 23 years in a row) the […]
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: All My Children, As the World Turns, Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, MARLENA, One Life to Live, Young and the Restless | 11 Comments »
How many times have you seen a soap villainess or villain — or even a soap hero or heroine — do something that is so wrong and so bizarre that you’ve jumped up from your armchair and screamed: “WHAT IS WRONG with her/him?”
In the vast, messy world of today’s soap opera — where cheap thrills usually […]
Posted on June 13th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: General Hospital, MARLENA | 1 Comment »
By Damon L. Jacobs
Hello and welcome to my cyber office. These sessions will be an opportunity for us to examine the psychological profiles of some of our favorite soap characters, explore their symptoms, and get a better grasp of why they do the things they do. My hope is that we will have a dialogue […]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: General Hospital, SOAP SHRINK | 11 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Brian Kerwin (Charlie Banks, One Life to Live) for the Broadway theater site, Theater Mania. I talked to him both about his Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor (OLTL’s only acting nomination this year) and his very contrasting, on-going role as a pervert who tries to seduce a 15-year-old girl in […]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 9 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
About 1984 or so, when the primetime world was at the height of Dynasty-mania, all the daytime soaps were hustling to introduce characters, all costumed in big-brimmed hats, who were supposed to be the “Alexis of Daytime.” Elizabeth Hubbard, new as Lucinda on As the World Turns, was supposed to be the […]
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: MARLENA, One Life to Live | 29 Comments »
By Marlena De Lacroix
My friend Roger Newcomb, who is the editor of We Love Soaps, invited Moose and me to attend a Tribeca screening of Manhattanites, the film he co-produced with Lyle Kaminer. We really enjoyed it, and I think you’ll like it too, especially if you are a soap fan.
Manhattanites tells the story of […]
Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by admin
Filed under: All My Children, MARLENA, One Life to Live | 5 Comments »
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