Episode 8 – “The ‘Schmootz on Tina Sloan”

A few days ago, I had the distinct privilege of sitting down and chatting with the incomparable Tina Sloan, daytime drama legend…and now author.  Tina has chronicled her life as an actress, mother, and daughter in a wonderfully charming, humorous, and poignant memoir entitled Changing Shoes. Changing Shoes is a primer of sorts for growing [...]

OTALIA Reunited Handcuffed in Bed…?

A Twitter source at Soap Town USA tweeted that OTALIA reunites and moves back into the farmhouse of love…together.  Now, that got me thinking, and for those of you who know me, agree that can be sinister.  Considering the lack of real affection displayed between these two characters, how in the hell are TPTB going [...]

The 2009 Daytime Emmy Awards

I would call last night’s Daytime Emmys a joke…except it wasn’t funny.  There was so much soliciting of my affection and my money that I felt I needed a shower half-way through the broadcast.  I can’t really blame the CW Network as they swooped down in their pimp-mobile and rescued the broadcast in the eleventh [...]

Jessica Leccia: Less Second Fiddle, More Harmony

I have been thinking about the last month of the OTALIA storyline and Jessica Leccia’s welcomed return next week. Maybe it’s the thin air or perhaps one of my rare moments of cynic-less personal clarity, but I have been pondering that through no fault of her own, Jessica has at times become an afterthought…a sidekick [...]

Lets Hear It For “The Girls” – a commentary on Crystal Chappell’s SOW interview

In the latest edition of Soap Opera Weekly, Crystal Chappell expounds upon the freeing nature of letting “the girls” out for a bit.  I think we can all agree that Crystal has been anything but unrestrained lately in her portrayal of Guiding Light’s Olivia Spencer, Springfield’s sexual icon who has professed mutual love with her [...]

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