Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creature of the Tube," said Carol Burnett, 38, arriving in New York to collect her award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
...Catholic Soap Opera...
...read with some shock that the producers of the soap opera The Secret Storm [April 2] had consulted with the Archdiocese of New York. The fact is that no members of the Columbia Broadcasting System ever consulted with the archdiocese regarding "Father Mark Reddin's romantic life." We are not attempting to explain the problems of confused clerics through the medium of a soap opera...
...program, emphasis is on stimulating the elderly to make their own lives happier. "Old people often believe themselves pushed aside, forgotten. But they do it to themselves," Hugonot recently told an audience of aged men and women. "Sitting makes you atrophy physically," he went on, "and watching TV soap operas does nothing much to exercise your brain. That can atrophy, too. The less you move around in the world and use your brain, the less you communicate with other human beings and the more you're alone." Hugonot is against passive acceptance of the supposed infirmities...
...catalyst of the action, however, is David (Sami Frei), an artist who returns to Paris to pick up with Rosalie where he left off several years ago. David is a reserved and preoccupied figure, languidly handsome, and given to the terse, apocalyptic remarks with which soap opera segments end in mystery. The one-upmanship of the two suitors in their fight for Rosalie is the organizing theme of the early scenes. The camera reveals Cesar and David through her eyes, as she makes mental comparisons, and the tension is akin to that which accompanies long-winded introductions at championship fights...