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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beard School gym, Kelly Donnelly is whiling away the last moments before a soccer clinic. Dad Pat has driven her there, of course. He watches as Kelly spends a minute or so keeping a soccer ball suspended by bouncing it lightly off her knees, in a kind of airborne dribble--a bit of magic that only the rarest adult could pull...
...network's main hope for Passions lies in the show's creator, James Reilly, a 50-year-old medical school dropout bestowed with the kind of outre imagination for which the world provides few professional outlets. A veteran daytime-drama writer, Reilly was brought to NBC to revive an ailing Days of Our Lives in 1992. During his five-year tenure as head writer, the show became the most-watched daytime soap on television among the genre's target audience of young and middle-aged women. It also became one of NBC's five most profitable shows in any time...
None of this is to say that Passions is devoid of promise. Indeed, there are flashes of a certain kind of genius in the first episode alone, which has a self-exiled Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) in France visiting Sacre Coeur every day to mourn the loss of her best friend. That best friend was Princess Diana, who we now learn was on her way to visit Sheridan when she met her ill fate in that Parisian tunnel. The show doesn't make clear why this information never surfaced on Hard Copy...
...place to call home and a community with which to share it. In Springsteen's concerts, joyful abandon is now tempered with rueful regret. And like the songs' subjects, fans who once dreamed of escaping their parents, phys-ed teachers and "towns full of losers" worry about the kind of world they will be leaving their children...
...apartment that makes Biosphere 2 look like J.D. Salinger's house. I think I was willing to make that sacrifice because I saw an opportunity for ultimate fame. Not being famous for hitting home runs or getting my breasts reduced but simply for being me. Ed McMahon kind of fame...