Pat Falken Smith: The Drama and the Lawsuits By: Michael Poirier “If ever I knew a litigious person, it was Pat, who went to court as often as some people go out for a frozen yogurt,” said Ann Marcus, former headwriter of Days of Our Lives and other soaps, about her hard-charging contemporary Pat Falken Smith.1 Falken Smith’s colorful … [Read more...]
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Days of Our Lives’s Doug and Julie: The Look of Love
December 12, 2024 by 6 Comments
I first started watching soaps as a lonely teenager while I was waiting for my parents to come home from work, circa the late ’60s and early ’70s. Soap characters became my ersatz family. One of the first shows I fell in love with was “Days of Our Lives,” which was written by Bill Bell. (This was before he created “The Young and the Restless.”) … [Read more...]
