Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school seniors who held their breath and tore open their envelopes this week, none received so much publicity as a certain former Ivory Soap baby. Brooke Shields has had one of the best-documented adolescences of the century, and her odyssey through the treacherous land of college admissions has been no exception. Last spring, People Magazine schemed to scoop her SAT scores. And this fall, as the coyly sized up the Ivy League, no passing reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution...
...fateful day, though, the saga crossed the line into soap opera. As the letters were sent, rumors leaked out through the Daily Princeloman that the admissions committee was so deadlocked over the starlet's application that it had finally abdicated responsibility for the choice. Instead, James Wickenden, dean of admissions gave himself a few more hours. He flew to Florida, where Brooke was staying, bearing two possible fates--one letter of acceptance and one of rejection...
Although her income from a trust fund supported her comfortably, Coleman kept busy with odd jobs as a substitute teacher or an extra on a TV soap opera. But her interest waned as she became more obsessed with coke. "There was no room to think about anything else. When I was working, I'd be thinking, 'I'll cop [buy] in four hours,' 'I'll cop in three hours.' Sometimes I'd just leave early and go cop." Before long, the interest she received on her trust fund was not enough...
...prime-time television weren't drowning in enough soap opera, Procter & Gamble, the producer of the age-old daytime CBS stand-by The Guiding Light, is invading the evening hours. In May, it will be offering half a dozen of Guiding Light's regular hands in the TV movie The Cradle Will Fall. Making the whole production look a little glossier is Lauren Mutton, 38. Her presence in Nashville, where the production was being shot, certainly dazzled Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, 42, who named Hutton an honorary "Colonel Aide-de-Camp of the Governor's Staff...
There are soap-operatic calamities in this extended family, complete with a widowed aunt (Joyce Van Patten), her restless older daughter (Jodi Thelen) and her coddled, sickly younger one (Mandy Ingber). But they are redeemed by Simon's abiding affection. In a character portrait in depth, Željko Ivanek, as Eugene's older brother, provides his panting sibling with a silver lining: not a Yankees uniform but a French postcard. This season's silver lining is Neil Simon's love letter to his past...