-> On 18 Dec 06  08:28:46, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: Soaps

 DC> LOL!  Actually, there are some good actors in them (at times).  And 
 DC> many a star has gotten their first role on a soap.  Some, like 
 DC> Susam Lucci, are stuck there forever.  

 NB> True.  They are ubiquitous enough, especially now, to provide a place
 NB> for actors to get a foothold, and get themselves seen.  And TV reaches
 NB> farther than the local stage groups... 

Alec Baldwin started there.  

 
 DC> See above!  Susan Lucci started her character as a teenager.  She's 
 DC> now one of the matriarchs.  

 NB> And has mellowed quite a bit, from being the character everyone loved
 NB> to hate... now Erica seems almost loveable at times...  Of course, as
 NB> you say, she's a matriarch now... not that they are necessarily any
 NB> more easy to take than the rest of the soaps crew, actually...  
 NB> (And, truly, I only see these shows when FORCED into it because someone
 NB> I am visiting has it on, and doesn't turn it off!  Doesn't take much
 NB> exposure to keep track at all!)

I bet it must be a lot of fun to be a writer for one of them.  And, 
not that hard as they steal story lines from each other!  



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