By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanSoap roles can conform strictly to type: heroes and heroines we root for and villains and villainesses we root against. Happily, however, most soap casts are big enough to include characters who do not conform to type. These off-beat characters have personalities drawn in various shades … [Read more...]
Character Actors Add Much Needed Character To Soaps
July 13, 2014 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanSoap stories, most of which are about romance and love triangles, do tend to get repetitive. Adding variety and spice to this formula are character roles, which do a lot to make soaps more interesting. These characters often provide comic relief and serve as “talk tos” for the main … [Read more...]
Daytime’s Most Famous “Love to Hate” Characters
July 6, 2014 by 19 Comments
By Marlena Delacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanFor any soap opera, a “love to hate” character is money in the bank. Fascinated by their endless power to manipulate other characters and instigate interesting plots, these diabolical characters are adored by audiences who avidly follow all that they do. “Love to hate” characters … [Read more...]
The Young and the Restless and General Hospital: Unanswered Questions
June 30, 2014 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanSoaps are often very logical, with storyline happenings and conclusions ironed out well in advance. Even so, for many veteran soap watchers it’s hard not to second guess the logic of soap writers.For example, we can see exactly why The Young and the Restless recently decided to make … [Read more...]
The 2014 Daytime Emmys: A Pleasant Evening Online
June 23, 2014 by 20 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanThis year’s Daytime Emmys – for the first time, streamed live online but not televised -- they turned out to be relatively painless. Without commercials, the show flowed nicely, and was capably produced. Hostess Kathy Griffin was funny and full of salt and vinegar as always. The … [Read more...]
Should Children and Babies Be Killed off on Soap Operas?
June 15, 2014 by 8 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanBack in the day … way back, actually … it was unheard of to kill off children, especially babies, on soaps. The traditional audience was, after all, stay at home moms who watched or listened to their soaps while rolling out pie crust or ironing the family laundry.Today, the taboo has … [Read more...]
Exciting GH or Humdrum Y&R: Which is Your Choice?
June 1, 2014 by 9 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanThis week General Hospital was very exciting as it was revealed that the “Luke” walking around as a criminal in Port Charles is a fake, with the fake visiting the real Luke who is drugged and out of it in the Miscavage asylum. Also, Ava announced she was pregnant with Sonny’s baby when he … [Read more...]
Soaps: Where Intelligent Women Still Rule
May 11, 2014 by 11 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanWomen are still the core of soap opera. They are what the plots are about and they make the stories go. An overwhelming number of women on soap operas are very intelligent, assertive and masters of their own fates. Here’s a round-up of the most intelligent and sometimes devious women … [Read more...]
Daytime Emmy Nominations – Marlena Still Cares
May 3, 2014 by 12 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The Daytime Emmy nominations for 2014 have been announced. Do you care? After all these years, Marlena still does. So let’s discuss:Best Actor: Aside from Jason Thompson (Patrick, General Hospital) the other four nominees all come from The Young and the Restless: Peter Bergman … [Read more...]
Disgraceful, Delightful and Disgusting: This Week’s Soap Events
April 26, 2014 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua HaymanFrom The Young and the Restless: This week Nick found out that a doppelganger for his dead daughter Cassie has been in town for months disgracefully spooking Sharon into getting shock treatments. The look-alike (who doesn’t even have a name) admitted the sham and said that Victor had … [Read more...]
