Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Silverman is clearly nervous?and a little defensive?about the show's reception. "I believe that Soap will present very positive models and will lead," he maintains. "I say that because I think that the underpinning of the show is the sanctity of the family unit?believe it or not. There is a scene between a mother and her daughter that will make you cry. Now my feeling is that if you car get involved enough in a program that when two of the characters start communicating with each other to the point where you're moved ?then that...
When Silverman says that the scene in Soap will bring tears, he is really saying that he has already cried while watching it, will cry again when it comes on the air and yet again when it goes into reruns. What makes him the best programmer in television today is the fact that he is the best viewer working in television today. Silverman, 39, does not have to pause and think what 60 million viewers will want to see: he knows, or usually knows, because he is one of them. His likes are theirs, and his dislikes are theirs...
...Silverman. While everyone else was playing golf or tennis, Silverman was found under a blanket on the beach, his eyes transfixed by a small, battery-powered TV. Once, in a state of great excitement, he called CBS Executive Perry Lafferty into his office to watch a scene in a soap opera. "It was a routine hospital bed scene, with the man standing beside the bed of the woman he loves," remembers Lafferty. "But I looked over at Freddie, and tears were rolling down his cheeks...
...weight goes up and down, and he frets about diets. "I put on weight a couple of months ago because of the furor about Soap," he complains. "I ended up eating, drinking and smoking too much." His eyes are strangely hooded, like Bert Lance's, as if he has just awakened?or is about to go to sleep. He is graying early, and he could easily be mistaken for someone ten years older than he is. In person, Silverman is affable but tentative. He does not shake hands but thrusts forth his fingers instead, as if afraid that the full...
Sitcoms For the first time since 1971, there will be no new fall comedy show on the networks from Norman Lear. Still, with TV violence out of fashion, the sitcom mills have been the busiest of all, with eight new shows. If Soap, a Lear-ish entry from ABC, is any indication, sex may replace the Shootout as a video pastime. The half-hour weekly serial is a family farce complete with philandering husband, a mother and daughter who pursue the same tennis pro, a transvestite son, and many, many others...