-> On 03 Dec 06  16:31:05, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: relationship   
      
    DC> I think what amazes me is that they tend to really believe that those    
    DC> characters and those lives are actually real.  That is even more    
    DC> astonishing in that the acting is generally very poor.     
      
    NB> It's a willing suspension of reality, as far as I can tell...  Perhaps   
    NB> the poor acting gives it a sense of verisimilitude...?  (See... they   
    NB> HAVE to be real... actors would do a better job!  (Or something like   
    NB> that...  ))   
      
   LOL!  Actually, there are some good actors in them (at times).  And    
   many a star has gotten their first role on a soap.  Some, like    
   Susam Lucci, are stuck there forever.     
      
    DC> What I find even more interesting is that you only have to watch    
    DC> one show a week.  The Monday show gives a full recap of last week's    
    DC> earth-shaking developments.     
      
    NB> What's worse, one can see one show and then, a year or two later,   
    NB> happen to see another, and STILL not have lost the thread....!  Or, see   
    NB> it years later, and still recognize some/most of the characters...    
    NB> Granted, 20 years later one needs to watch a couple of shows to pick   
    NB> up the story line again... sort of...  The plots don't really change   
    NB> all that much... it's just the "next generation" doing it this time...   
       
   See above!  Susan Lucci started her character as a teenager.  She's    
   now one of the matriarchs.     
      
      
      
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