Back from my moving-across-half-of-the-country sabbatical to bring you a quick check-in on the goings-on at Westfield Prep. And there are a lot of things going on! For the uninitiated, Westfield Prep and environs is the mythical(?) Southern California setting for the super-soapy teen web drama Youthful Daze. When Tommy Dinato (Ethan Daniel Corbett) comes back […]
I’ll be honest with you: I used to hate weddings. Now, because I can have one of my own, I guess, I’ve come to embrace them — real or pretend. For example, I’ve done a lot of television watching and crying for the last week as Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis got married on the daytime drama […]
Who could resist this face? Evidently, the new incarnation of Will Horton on Days of our Lives; that’s who. Will said “no” to Sonny — actually, he first said “Wow!” — and then explained himself and the couple ended up in the sack anyway at the end of a rather sweet scene that had a […]
The 50 Greatest Gay TV Characters. Courtesy of The Backlot. I did participate in this poll and I’m pleased to see that a few of my recommendations made it in. I’m particularly pleased about the page linked above, featuring #s 9, 8 and 7 — the delicious fantasy soap opera trio of Sonny Kiriakis, Will […]
Outlets covering gay entertainment news and those covering soap operas had plenty to write about Fri., Aug. 23, when, in a surprise move, two-time Emmy winner Chandler Massey announced that he had filmed his last scenes as Will Horton on the venerable NBC sudser Days of our Lives. The 22-year-old Massey had announced his intentions […]
Got this tweet this past weekend from LogoTV — Of course, I had to check it out. The premise is people who are out now showing old pictures of themselves when they were pretending to be straight — or simply hadn’t figured out how to come out of the closet. Back when I was a […]
[Jan. 17, 2014 — Follow-up and update: ‘Sonny Skies’ …] In the U.K., “to revise” means “to study” and in the U.S., “to revise” means “to reconsider or change.” In revising this post, I kept BOTH definitions in mind. Plow through. You need to read the next couple of paragraphs before I get to the […]
(4.29.13) — Today is Welcome Back to Pine Valley Day. (Or if your preference is just down the road, it’s Welcome Back to Llanview Day.) It’s the day that the Internet reboot of All My Children and One Life to Live begins. It took me awhile, but I pinpointed my first viewing of AMC to […]
Here’s a cut from Cady McClain. It’s a terrific piece and any soap fan should take a few moments and read it and think about what she’s saying. I want to talk about the new young people on All My Children, and why I think (and hope) the audience should give them a chance. I […]
I watch soap operas. I’ve always watched soap operas. If done right, continuing drama is a terrific medium to examine social problems, to tell important stories, to educate. The genre’s progenitor, Irna Phillips, knew this. Agnes Nixon, creator of All My Children and One Life to Live knew this. So did Ted Corday. Ted Corday […]
One Last Word 