General Hospital: Can This Show Be Saved?
By Ed Martin Watching General Hospital these last two weeks, as the energetic efforts of One Life to Live veterans Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati to save the show from almost certain doom begin to...
View ArticleSunday Reflections: General Hospital, Bold and Beautiful and Marlena’s Radio...
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman General Hospital: Heather! Heather! Heather! That’s practically all the GH audience is seeing this summer. Last month I praised multi-soap...
View ArticleSunday Reflections 14: General Hospital’s Non-Stop Storyline Excitement …...
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman General Hospital: “No one ever dies in this town,” exclaimed Luke and Tracy together as they talked about the wounded and missing Joe Scully Jr....
View ArticleMarlena’s Best of the Best, 2012
By Marlena De Lacroix, a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman It’s the end of 2012, time for best and worst lists. Because soaps are in such danger and I’ve already recorded most of the worsts in the weekly...
View ArticleGeneral Hospital: When the Veterans Come Marching Home
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman The late Jim Reilly used to say that writing a soap was like baking a cake. You mix in various ingredients, maybe a little bit more or less of...
View ArticleGeneral Hospital: Jam-Packed November Sweeps
William deVry: His Derek Wells is really dead mob boss Julian Jerome (ABC photo) By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman It’s traditional for a soap presents its strongest stories during...
View ArticleHeavenly November Sweeps Performances on The Young and the Restless, The Bold...
By Marlena De Lacroix a.k.a. Connie Passalacqua Hayman It’s been quite an eventful November sweeps so far. Stories built over the course of a year or more usually reach their apexes if not their...
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