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...with a notable portrayal of Honey in the original 1964 London production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beverlee McKinsey was best known for her work on the small screen. She earned four Daytime Emmy nominations during her nine-year tenure as the conniving Iris Carrington on the soap opera Another World and captivated audiences as the matriarch on the popular series Guiding Light, which she starred in from...
...These serials are against Afghan culture. They are anti-Islamic and bad for the Afghan people," says Abdul Qadir, a 20 year-old student, on the government decision to ban the wildly popular Indian soap operas that have come to dominate Afghan TV during prime time. "People aren't working, they aren't studying, because of these serials." Yes, but Qadir freely admits he that for the past year, he has watched every nightly episode of Tulsi, the tale of an Indian housewife and mother more properly known as The Mother-in-Law Was Once a Daughter...
...Mohseni, director of Tolo TV, has refused, calling the ban illegal and ill-defined. He may eventually have to acquiesce, although he has plenty of other programs to fill the gap. Tolo already airs the terror-themed Hollywood drama 24, while a Korean mini-series and an Afghan-made soap opera have proved popular. So, it's not the ratings effect of dropping Tulsi that worries him, Mohseni says; it's the precedent. "Is this going to cut back on what we enjoy, freedom of expression? The Indian shows go first, then they ban music, then women on TV. Once...
...they swatted away gnats and flies, the children would toss around foreign words, acclimating their tongues to new sounds like “yellow” and “soap...
...strengths as art, politics and soap opera, Standard Operating Procedure will reach only the art-house audience--a small fraction of the Harold & Kumar crowd. Yet Morris' argument is pure populist Hollywood. He says the grunts were the little guys who took the fall while the brass got off free. Harold & Kumar, oddly, believes our boys can be saved by a higher power: the President of the United States...