Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing up to five soap-opera parts...
...show like Peyton Place, ABC's twice-weekly soap opera, there's no future for a female character after she's finally married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush...
...There is not a jot of rhapsody in him. "I had gone about all these years," my Master Builder says, "torturing myself with the effort to recover something--some experience which I seemed to have forgotten"--and Williams pronounces those sacred words as though he were a handbill about soap. Veritas indeed...
...triumph of the soap operatic in Lerner's play looms inevitable from its start, but fails to obscure a certain intelligence, and a surprising discipline, about the whole thing. The production, directed by Lerner, looks like it came in well under the Experimental Theatre's customarily stringent budget. The performances are all right, I guess; there's no designer's credit on the program, but the set explains...
...shambles. Perhaps most serious, there is a new mood of frustration abroad in the land. "If the people could just complain," says Jacinto Cabal'ero, a Cuban exile newly arrived in Miami, "it would be a lot easier. But you can't even say the soap is lousy, because the revolution makes the soap, and therefore you are criticizing the revolution, which is forbidden...