Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infuriated Ephmen came storming back within minutes, and a long hard shot by Williams's Edson Hartman at 43:35 made it 2-1 in the half...
Williams tallied again midway through the second half on the kind of goal that's going to make netminder Herold prematurely gray. A shot by the Ephmen's Hartman was headed wide, but it deflected off a Crimson defender's foot, hooked around Herold, hit a post, and bounced into...
...Mary Hartman without heart
Soap aspires to be a network Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and one only wishes that it were. Susan Harris, Soap's creator, producer and writer, centers the action on two related Connecticut families, the rich Tates and working-class Campbells, whose flaky members collectively include philandering and impotent husbands, bored and batty housewives, nymphomaniac children, a senile grandfather-and so on. Most of these types have counterparts in Mary Hartman's Fernwood, Ohio, but Soap's characters are flimsy replicas of the originals...
...blame belongs to Harris, not the show's talented cast. For all the trouble this writer has taken to reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap...