Agnes Nixon’s New Website – the Queen of Daytime’s Mental Scrapbook

Agnes Nixon is a woman with a set of ovaries.  I have always admired her brave forays into the tides of social antagonisms.  Now she has decided to tip her toe into the waters of social networking and blogging as www.agnesnixon.com

As the creator of my all time personal favorite daytime drama, All My Children, Ms. Nixon gave me more days of personal angst than I care to admit.  As a result, I was loathe to succumb to my own personal crises when I had a role model like Erica Kane!  As I was growing up in Atlanta, Erica Kane was the modern day Scarlett O’Hara that managed to use whatever means necessary so she would never go hungry or lonely again.

Ms. Nixon has chronicled her own mental scrapbook and virtualized it for all of us to enjoy.  We can now sit back and pick Agnes Nixon’s brain from the comfort of our own homes and smartphones.  The opening page is a video message from Ms. Nixon herself with a personal greeting inviting each of us to poke around and ask her questions.

I’ve got one…God, I hated Enid Nelson.  Why was she so damn mean?  Pardon my language, Ms. Nixon, but these are the characters we loved to hate.  The woman was pure evil in bad Junior League fashion.  And Brooke, she was such a tart.  I loved her as a motorcycle wench in a leather jacket.  What do you think of how her character turned out after you were no longer involved in the creative control of All My Kids?

Here’s a good one, too.  You have been credited with saying, “Make them laugh, make them cry, and make them wait.”  Have you seen Guiding Light’s OTALIA?  That CAN’T be what you meant?  Watching continental drift is painful.

Anyway, as Mary, The Soaps Examiner, and I have been discussing and reminiscing about the soaps of old, we decided that perhaps a page of retro soap memories were in order.  If the American soap opera is dying, why wait until it flat lines to have the wake?

So, I would love your thoughts on a retro soaps page where we can all wax philosophical on the days of watching while our grandmothers ironed…or the days we skipped school to see a hook-up because the VCR was broken.

Oh I remembered another question.  Ellen Wheeler, what was it like to have been involved in a socially controversial storyline about AIDS in the 80’s?  Did you feel the same sense of responsibility to a marginalized community involved when you proceeded with OTALIA?  I know that’s not a question to Agnes Nixon, but I thought she might use her influence.