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Post by Steven on Oct 19, 2007 13:04:06 GMT
Fuck McDean, Nuke is my new OTP:
HOTT.
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Post by Nick on Oct 19, 2007 13:30:05 GMT
The opening credits were AMAZING, except for the last couple of seconds when the the title came on and the drama and urgency buttons were switched off. Who's the woman in Pair Of People #8? She looks like fun.
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Post by joshjones on Oct 20, 2007 12:42:48 GMT
Apparently their kisses (well, the two they had) were edited down, as was a flirty scene they had. They haven't had anything like that in months. I'm so used to seeing John Paul snog for as long as he likes, even if one of the bummers has to be wearing a vest, that I'm spoiled and don't want to see the Puritan treatment.
That show is, outside of Nuke, terrible.
They had the first gay character on an American soap, like in the late 80's. He was a fashion designer and one of the neurotic women in the cast fell for him and misinterpreted his friendship and freaked out when she found out he was gay. The headwriter was going to give him AIDS, then decided he would be playing into stereotypes.
The woman who created that show is worthy of a soap opera all her own. Irna Phillips. She made everyone go by their character names when they were off set. She wouldn't let them bring any spouses or kids to cast parties. If a story didn't go her way, she would kill off a popular character out of spite. In the early 70's, she hated an actress because the actress appeared on Broadway at night (in Lenny) as a stripper. She had the character develop a bad pneumonia, but viewers realized what was going on and wrote angry letters, so the character lived. The actress was so upset about the hostile work environment that she left as soon as her contract was up. Irna still hated the character, even with a new actress in the part. So she wanted her to accidentally set herself on fire on her honeymoon. The producers told her no, because another show had just done that. Instead, Irna had the woman FALL UP THE STAIRS and fatally rupture her spleen.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Oct 20, 2007 19:38:27 GMT
Wow, she should team up with the Hollyoaks team! She's not dead is she?
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Post by boxedjoy on Oct 20, 2007 21:03:36 GMT
Could there be a more heterosexual character name than Colonel Majors?
I've watched parts 30-50, I'm hooked.
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Post by joshjones on Oct 20, 2007 21:08:33 GMT
I think she's been dead for about 30 years, unfortunately. She created some of the first and most popular radio soaps (The Guiding Light is still on today, 70 years later), then went to TV. She created ATWT in 1956 and helped the show become #1 (it was #1 in the daytime ratings until the mid-70's). She left the show in the 60's, then returned, but her stories were too much for viewers. She created a woman named Kim and had Kim fall in love with and seduce her sister's husband. Kim got pregnant and Irna was going to have her marry the sister's husband. The network said that was too much, Kim had to be punished, viewers would not forgive Kim for what she had done, etc. Irna refused (she had based Kim on herself), and was fired. Irna died a few years later. Kim I always remember for being the star of one of my favorite Star Trek episodes, "The Empath".
Irna also told daytime's first incest story (Rhys/Beth would be so proud). She wanted to tell daytime's first interracial romance, on Love is a Many Splendored Thing. When CBS said no, she quit in protest.
The show's best headwriter in recent years was Doug Marland. He wrote stories about a multi-generational cast, with discussions of AIDS, bulimia, assisted suicide, and so on. He created the Snyder family, a huge and dysfunctional brood who loved each other and hated each other and were looked down on by the rest of the town. Sort of like the McQueens.
Video tribute for Douglas after he died:
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Post by Adrian on Oct 21, 2007 11:25:53 GMT
I like how Luke sublimates his big sexual horn into playing with tupperware and clingfilm.
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Post by joshjones on Oct 25, 2007 16:17:09 GMT
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Post by cathybradford on Jun 8, 2008 22:54:07 GMT
I knew there was a thread about the gays.
Cyndi Lauper has been called in to bring them together
So when is Kim Wilde gonna come and solve John Pauls love life?
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