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...page newspaper warning of dire consequences if Zyuganov wins. On the front page of the first issue, which has already flooded 10 million Russian homes, a fabricated plea from Stacy Edwards urges voters to choose Yeltsin over the Communists. Edwards plays Holly on Santa Barbara, an American soap opera widely watched on Russian television. Inside, a full-page color photo portraying Zyuganov has been retouched to show him in a surgical gown, holding a sickle poised to slice into two eggs. In Russian the word for eggs is also slang for testicles...
...cast and crew of Harvard-Radcliffe Television's (HRTV) "Ivory Tower" got a visit from another television crew Tuesday. The soap opera based on College life will be featured in an upcoming episode of NBC's "Real Life...
Longo said that "Real Life," a life-style magazine which debuted in March, is targeted toward women. The "Did You Know?" segment on "Ivory Tower" is centered on the theme "Did you know that Harvard had a soap opera...
HRTV Publicity Director Jared E. Bush '96-'97 said the camera crew spent the day with soap opera cast members, even securing permission to film in Harvard Yard, which is only rarely granted to outside film crews...
...spite of all the whirling lunacy they concocted, Melrose writers still kept a hand in the world of plausible fantasy--the bend-don't-break rule that is the essence of soap-opera craft. The writers also understood that soaps must always have, at their core, at least one pair of earnest lovers whose thwarted longing fuels the drama. Melrose has Billy and Alison, lovers too personalityless to be destined for any other. Last year we cared whether they would beat gargantuan odds--Alison's alcoholism, her affair with an N.F.L. sex addict--and find their way back into each...