Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Idea she always wanted to bring to the pages of Fifteen Minutes: I wanted to try "Harvard 02138," a serial soap opera a la "Beverly Hills 90210," but I was way too lazy...
...fuel to run machines, no raw materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark...
...skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display. That is just as well because the rest of his talents range from innocuous to boring. He is a major star if, and only if, you watch the soap opera The Young and the Restless. Robert Torti plays a pharaoh as Elvis. Once you've heard the idea, the performance is superfluous...
This season's replacement soap opera for the Buttafuocos of Long Island is the Bobbitts of Manassas. There is Lorena Bobbitt, the Ecuadorian-born manicurist who could go to prison for 20 years if she is found guilty of what the lawyers call "malicious wounding." Then there is John Wayne Bobbitt, who, although acquitted of marital sexual assault last week, may never, as they say, be whole again. Despite the bloodletting, the Bobbitts are less Greek tragedy than downmarket War of the Roses. The onetime bouncer and the struggling beautician had been trapped with each other under the same roof...
...soap opera of the superrich, Haft family's feuding should be enough to make at least one publisher rush out a quicky version of the tangled tale of father vs. son and love turned sour. Wrong. One author's proposal has been turned down by an astounding 18 publishers, and a couple of other writers have been shut out. Seems some properties are too hot to handle: nobody wants to be iced out of the Haft's giant Crown bookstore chain -- or to get on their hefty list of those being sued...