Word: soaped
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...answer to the last question, at least, is easy. Ryan's Hope is one of three ABC soap operas that have been booted off the air for two weeks to make way for coverage of the Olympics. (The others: The Edge of Night and Loving.) The network's remaining soaps-All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital-are continuing during the Games, but in shortened, 40-min. episodes so that all three can be squeezed into a special two-hour time slot. No matter how well ABC's Olympics coverage does in the ratings...
...rival networks have anything to say about it. Attempting to capitalize on the Olympic disruption, NBC chose last week to introduce a lavishly produced new soap, Santa Barbara. The network built a $12 million state-of-the-art studio in Burbank, Calif, especially for the show, and early segments have featured an array of opulent sets alternating with outdoor locales. The cast, headed by Dame Judith Anderson, has been introduced in a series of action-packed plot lines designed to hook viewers. For starters, there is the return to town of Parolee Joe Perkins, accused of murdering a member...
...story Meridien, opened last October, offers such determinedly Gallic touches as hand-milled French soap, breakfast croissants and a bilingual staff. From his four-room suite on the top floor, Mondale will have a panoramic view of San Francisco Bay to the east. The master bedroom is equipped with remote controls for opening and closing the draperies and for raising and lowering a television housed in a lacquered cabinet. The choice of ablutions includes a Jacuzzi-equipped bathtub, redwood sauna and multijet shower, all within reach of one of the bathroom's two telephones. The Democratic front runner apparently...
Best Friends and Club Founders Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch deliver monologues wholly devoid of irony on the brilliance of Republicans from Grant to Hoover and sound like soap opera shrinks...
While Dykstra attacks the media hype of subjects such as soap-opera wives and Prince William's wardrobe, her best work pokes giggles into the generation gap. Climbing three flights of stairs to inspect her 23-year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that...