By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The core of watching soap operas is to believe. Unfortunately, General Hospital viewers had to put that value behind them this week when the show introduced new characters played by oh-so-familiar faces, all with new hair-dos to signify their new personae. Michael Easton, who played John, … [Read more...]
On Soaps, We Believe What We Choose to Believe
January 5, 2013 by 12 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman General Hospital: Soaps or biology -- which do you choose to believe? On General Hospital this week, surrogate mother Maxie had a miscarriage (of the week-old embryo that is Dante and Lulu’s child) and barely noticed it. The same evening, New Year’s Eve, a drunk and apparently rejected … [Read more...]
Marlena Refreshed and General Hospital Done Right
July 20, 2012 by 4 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Hi, darlings! How do you like the marlenadelacroix.com site’s new look? Marlena needed to be refreshed, so I went in for some work. If Jeanne Cooper can have her face lifted so publicly on screen as Katherine Chancellor so many years ago on The Young and the Restless, and the equally … [Read more...]
Two Tone GHers
July 12, 2012 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix. a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman What's with the dip-dye hair on General Hospital? When I first saw that Finola Hughes' (heroine Anna Devane) usual dark hair was blond in the lowest regions when she first came back to the show, I thought it was unusual as a hairstyle But I chalked it up to the fact that … [Read more...]
More General Hospital: Outrageously the “M” Word
June 19, 2012 by 17 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman When Moose came home from work yesterday, he thought he'd have to dump a bucket of cold water over my head. I couldn't stop yelling, over and over again,"No, they really didn't do this!" General Hospital had a scene where Carly and Todd flirted/talked, and Todd was bare-chested. But … [Read more...]
Marlena to One Life to Live: “I Hate Todd”
March 11, 2008 by 33 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix I never liked the character of Todd Manning on One Life to Live. I never understood him. After he was introduced in 1992 as one of three gang rapists of college coed Marty Saybrooke, the character skyrocketed to become one of most popular characters on OLTL, if not all of soaps, and has stayed that way until … [Read more...]
