-> 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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