By Connie Passalacqua Hayman
Happy 20th anniversary, Soap Opera Weekly! Congratulations to the generations of writers, editors, production, art and business people who have worked on the magazine over the years. I was lucky to be one of them, from its launch on November 21, 1989 through the magazine’s first eleven years. Each week, under the pen name Marlena De Lacroix, I wrote Critical Condition, […]
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin
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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
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By Ed Martin
Everything about General Hospital that I have come to loathe during the last ten years was on proud, pungent display last week, to such a degree of extreme outrageousness I could not look away.
I must admit that there was an infectious lunatic energy to it all, which could account for my deep fascination […]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin
Filed under: GUESTS, General Hospital | 19 Comments »
Dear Ms. Passalacqua Hayman:
I wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoy reading your columns and your insights into the soaps. You are the reason I started buying Soap Opera Weekly so many years ago and I was sad when you left. I bought that magazine every week, at first for your columns, […]
Posted on November 4th, 2009 by admin
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By Marilyn Henry
There already have been big discussions on the internet about Jonathan Jackson returning to his role as Lucky on General Hospital. Newer viewers who don’t know his work are jolted; other long-time viewers are thrilled. I don’t know whose bad
In the last few weeks, the show seems to have turned a corner. Good grief, […]
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by admin
Filed under: GUESTS, General Hospital | 13 Comments »
