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(CBS) For 54 years, CBS took viewers to the town of Oakdale, Ill., home of "As the World Turns."
On Friday, after almost 14,000 episodes, the legendary soap opera aired its final episode.
Soaps, which once ruled daytime television, have been on the decline for several years. At the height of their popularity, 40 years ago, there were 19 on TV. That number is down to six.
And Friday, "As the World Turns," one of the most successful of them all, fell victim to TV's tough new economic realities.
"It's all about the bottom line," explains the show's executive producer, Christopher Goutman. "Scripted drama in daytime is a tough proposition, because it's expensive to produce, and I understand that. We are a victim of the times."
In May, the cast of "As the World Turns" came together one last time and posed for a final photo, in New York.
Ellen Dolan, who played Margo, tried to fight off tears as she said, "Today, it just feels like a celebration. We've all gotten to..." Then, emotions got to her, as she said, dabbing at her eyes, "OK. It's not a good day."
Eileen Fulton, who portrayed Lisa Grimaldi, went even further, saying, "The show ending is really tragic. I hate that it's ending."
Originally broadcast live in 1956, "As the World Turns" was the first half-hour soap to hit the air. Until then, they'd all been 15 minutes. It quickly topped the daytime ratings, and remained the No. 1 daytime drama for two decades.
The show also launched the careers of some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore, who reflected warmly that she "loved that whole period of my life. And they were so kind to me and really treated me like a professional and a grownup at a time when I wasn't really either."
Like many soaps, "As the World Turns" narratives were full of scandal and sexuality.
At times, they were even groundbreaking The show introduced daytime's first gay character in 1988.
Despite critical success, winning four daytime Emmy awards for best drama, ratings and production budgets declined.
And, between takes for the final episode -- number 13,858 -- cast and crew took time for long, hug- and tear-filled goodbyes, and reflected on the show's remarkably long journey through television history.
Don Hastings, who was Bob Hughes, said to applause from the rest of the cast, "Hopefully, we'll all somewhere meet each other again and work again, and I wish you all the best. It's been wonderful."(CBS) For 54 years, CBS took viewers to the town of Oakdale, Ill., home of "As... more
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A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it’s an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. “Be honest,” the writer says.
This is the way friendships end, and mean, funny films about the deaths of such friendships are born.
In THE BLUE TOOTH VIRGIN, Austin Peck — best known to soap aficionados as Brad Snyder on AS THE WORLD TURNS — plays the writer of said screenplay, not coincidentally called The Blue Tooth Virgin, while Bryce Johnson is his put-upon friend. Director Russell Brown, who also scripted, has structured the film as a series of two-character confrontations, bringing in friends, girlfriends, therapists, and Karen Black as a decidedly off-center script consultant to add their own feedback to the proceedings. The dialogue is crisp, funny, and frequently, happily, nasty, and the film speaks at once to those directly immersed in the machinations of the film industry, and to everyone who puts their creativity, and their egos, on the line.
Austin Peck gave me some good insights into fragility of the creative soul, and whether Karen Black can still deal gracefully with those who ask about the Zuni fetish doll. Click the link above to hear the interview.A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks... more
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[Via Queerty]
Los Angeles Times journo Tom O’Neil sure ain’t happy with GLAAD.
O’Neil wrote last week that the homo media watchdog should revoke the award it bestowed upon As The World Turns for the soap’s gay teenage love story. Though certainly ground breaking, that story’s caused a bit of protest among gay fans, who have urged producers and writers to lift a ban on the character’s sex lives. The teens, Luke (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann), kissed in early 2007, but a spokesperson from Proctor & Gamble, which produces the show, says they nixed new scenes “”because of some of the feedback that we’ve gotten, and because of what we thought was best for the show creatively”.[Via Queerty]
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