By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passlacqua Hayman1. Isn’t it a shame that CBS Daytime (The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful) is going retro just for ratings? Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) and NeIl (Kristoff St. John) running over pregnant Christine (Lauralee Bell) on Y&R? She sadly had a miscarriage. Running over a … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Spencer Becomes a Burn Victim
March 3, 2015 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanWho could have imagined there’d be an ongoing end of sweeps storyline that is so shocking it could practically upstage the mighty and controversial six month old Luke/Fluke story on General Hospital?But here it is: ten-year-old Spencer (Nicolas Bechtel) was severely burned on face and … [Read more...]
General Hospital: The Ginormous Furor over Fluke
February 14, 2015 by 12 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanIn many, many years, there hasn’t been a soap controversy of the magnitude of the furor over the year-old “Fluke” storyline on General Hospital. While some love it (I gave it a rave in two prior columns, but more on that later) many really hate it. Just look at all the negative remarks … [Read more...]
The Bold and the Beautiful: Inconsistencies and Smokin’ Seduction
February 8, 2015 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanStoryline inconsistencies bother soap viewers who want their storylines to be thoroughly believable and linear (not to mention being true to a soap’s actual history). We’ve seen plenty of them in the unfinished (as of this writing) Fluke story on General Hospital. Now I’d like to … [Read more...]
Divine Suspense Plots on General Hospital, Currently Must See TV — Part 2
February 5, 2015 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanI’ve said some negative things about General Hospital headwriter Ron Carlivati (particularly when he was writing One Life to Live) but in the last few months he has proven he knows well how to write soap opera. As discussed last week in my rave over the “Fluke” storyline, he knows how … [Read more...]
General Hospital’s Divine Suspense Plots Are Must See TV — Part 1
February 1, 2015 by 11 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanI screamed at the end of General Hospital on Friday! There, sitting in the old Spencer house basement in the same chair in which “Fluke” had tied the real Luke, was a figure with a dead skeletal face -- just like dead Mrs. Bates, Norman’s mom in the classic movie Psycho! This was just … [Read more...]
Heavenly November Sweeps Performances on The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital
November 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanIt’s been quite an eventful November sweeps so far. Stories built over the course of a year or more usually reach their apexes if not their conclusions over sweeps months (February, May, November) and writers plot their most dramatic action to stretch over these months. This November’s … [Read more...]
General Hospital: Where is the Love?
November 1, 2014 by 7 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman“Where is the love?” This is a famous soap world quote from the late beloved headwriter Doug Marland (As the World Turns, etc.) spoken when he used to look at other soaps and find anything but. This question can now be most fairly asked of General Hospital, once a good soap opera but now … [Read more...]
I’m Ba-a-ack – Not Quite from the Dead, but Almost!
October 8, 2014 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanSorry for the prolonged absence of late. I’ll spare you the gruesome details of a medical issue that finally kept the entire gastroenterology department of a major New York City hospital in high gear for one long day. I’m on the road to recovery now, thanks to a team of superb doctors, one … [Read more...]
