By Marlena De Lacroix, a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The Young and the Restless: So, what did you think of Y&R’s 10,000th episode, aired Thursday? This was the one in which a “dead” character came back for his own funeral. In this case, it was Victor Newman, in what seemed to be his 438th resurrection. (It was actually his third). … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 12: Young and Restless’ Blah 10,000th Episode … General Hospital’s Sabrina and Her Fantasies, and Connie and Her Body Shot
September 29, 2012 by 3 Comments
Sunday Reflections 11: Mucho Macho Man on Bold and Beautiful … Victor Lives Again on Young and Restless … Mourning a Great Actor from General Hospital
September 22, 2012 by 3 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The Bold and the Beautiful: I’m not going to apologize or use nice words. My favorite character on B&B is “Dollar” Bill Spencer because he has balls, something almost all the men on this show in its 25-year history have lacked. Unlike the romantic ping pong balls that have been Ridge … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 10: Katie Couric’s Talk Show is So-So … GH’s Fast Wrapping Up Remote … Y&R: Why did “Red”’s Hair Suddenly Turn Brown?
September 15, 2012 by 11 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman So what did you think of Katie, Ms. Couric’s new talk show? I have mixed feelings about it. Couric herself doesn’t bother me. Au contraire -- we should be proud that daytime television, which marginalizes older women, is spotlighting a 55-year-old. Katie’s usual intelligence does shine … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 9: On General Hospital,Your Emotions Are Played With as Sam and Jason Ask “What If?” … On The Young and the Restless, Sharon Heads Off to the Sanitarium
September 8, 2012 by 8 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix. a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Ever wonder how your emotions are expertly manipulated by soaps? A great example was Thursday's very unusual General Hospitalepisode in which Sam and Jason wondered what could have been had they made different decisions in their relationship. It had me screaming at the screen in anger at … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 8: On General Hospital, Jason as an Empty Vessel? … A Great Week for Older Women … A Most Confusing Friday Episode
September 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman General Hospital: Last Tuesday came word that Steve Burton is leaving General Hospitalafter 21 years playing Jason (Quartermaine) Morgan. You’d think I’d be happy because I have always disliked Jason, the hitman who was the central “hero” of the show. But as Burton leaves I have changing … [Read more...]
General Hospital: No Spoiler … What a Great Surprise!
August 27, 2012 by 5 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman When I think about Old Man Soap Opera, I think of someone teetering on a cane off to the inevitable. So who thought today he’d pull one of his oldest tricks out of his pocket: the element of surprise! Did you see today’s General Hospital? We all knew (from a cliffhanger on Friday’s … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 7: Central Actors’ Leave-takings on Days of Our Lives, Bold & Beautiful and General Hospital; Headlocks and Diction on B&B and GH; One Strange Interview from B&B
August 25, 2012 by 6 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital: When I used to work on newspapers it was journalistic thinking that a list of three of anything -- three sightings of groovy over-the-knee boots on the subway, three Hollywood divorces, three murders in a Queens … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 6: Cheese-tastic Days of Our Lives; Great Production on General Hospital; Marlena Recommends
August 18, 2012 by 4 Comments
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a Connie Passalacqua Hayman Days of Our Lives: “What’s that you’re watching, Marlena? That old movie Earthquake (1974)?” My husband Moose was looking at the TV screen where battered and bloodied people were climbing out of the wreckage of a ballroom that had experienced a terrific explosion. “No, it’s not quite … [Read more...]
Sunday Reflections 5: The Young and the Restless, The Revamp; Reality Shows on Y&R and General Hospital; Gold Medal GH
August 11, 2012 by 11 Comments
By Marlena Delacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The Young and the Restless: The hardest job in the soap world is being done right now by new executive producer Jill Farren Phelps and headwriter Josh Griffith as they revamp Y&R and are rumored to be paring down its expensive cast. Marlena has always believed it’s not a critic’s job to … [Read more...]
