By Damon L. Jacobs Losing someone you love is one of the hardest experiences you will ever have to go through. If you have ever cared about someone who has died, then you know the palpable heartache that brings pain throughout your entire body. But if you have ever lost a child, then you will understand the overwhelming anguish and paralyzing … [Read more...]
On the Soap Shrink’s Couch: Newly Bereaved Father Buzz Cooper on Guiding Light
March 13, 2009 by 2 Comments
One Life To Live Ups the Stakes, But Does It Dare Fire Superstar Slezak?
March 9, 2009 by 27 Comments
Thinking Fans Comment Update: Cherry Ames declares, "OLTL is so good in some ways, but in other ways it's just sick and sordid and as bad as reality (global recession, wars, mass killings in Darfur and Sudan, Octo-mom). I want something more uplifting and positive" ... while Beth predicts, "Forcing Erika Slezak from OLTL, in my view, is something … [Read more...]
Our Soap Shrink Wonders: Why So Many Bloody Brides?
March 6, 2009 by 7 Comments
Thinking Fans Comment Update: Jason laments, "I think the problem with soaps these days is they try to distance themselves from what they should be centered upon, which is love and romance, and turn to violence" ... while Deep Dish, favoring balance, suggests, "I think there's room enough on soaps for both the traditional romantic weddings as well … [Read more...]
Ask Marlena: Whatever Happened to the Marlena Awards?
February 24, 2009 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix Hi everyone! I'm ecstatic to be snowed under with the many, many Ask Marlena questions submitted by all of you in the past week. They are all intelligent and thoughtful and I am so flattered to hear from so many Thinking Fans I've gotten to know over the past year. I'm starting with just one great question today, and will … [Read more...]
Introducing a New Feature: Ask Marlena
February 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
What's on your minds, dear Thinking Fans? Do you have questions about current soaps you'd like to ask Marlena? Or questions about soaps of the glory days past? I'm the original Been-There-Done-That gal who's written about and been around soaps forever, and I love to talk with you, the best, most intelligent fans in the world, about where we've … [Read more...]
On the Soap Shrink’s Couch: One Life to Live’s Todd Manning
February 17, 2009 by 9 Comments
Thinking Fans on Todd: Marilyn Henry says, "I do not understand how some fans see him as sexy or hot. He is cruel. Sick. Unfeeling for others. As such, he is dangerous" ... while Dale agrues, "Just because I and others find something of worth in watching Todd does not make our opinions any less valid than yours, or Marlena's, or Joe Blow's" ... and … [Read more...]
Joyeuse St. Valentin, Mes Chers!
February 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Happy Valentine's Day, Thinking Fans! Marlena XXXOOO … [Read more...]
Asa, Ace of Characters: Phil Carey Remembered
February 11, 2009 by 13 Comments
Thinking Fans pay their respects to Mr. Carey: Dale says, "There's a big hole in Llanview these days named Asa Buchanan. His presence is still very much felt, but it's never going to be the same" ... and Steve recalls, "What made Asa so real was that he truly did love his family, even if he showed that love in the wrong way" ... while James … [Read more...]
David Selby as Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre
February 6, 2009 by 5 Comments
Attention Dark Shadows fans: David Selby, remembered fondly as the romantic heartthrob Quentin Collins on that long-running soap of yore, is playing Abraham Lincoln in a new play, The Heavens Are Hung In Black, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Selby has played Lincoln twice before. But this time, he says, is different: "This play goes … [Read more...]
