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DIED. JOSHUA RYAN EVANS, 20, 3-ft. 2-in. actor who played Timmy, a doll that miraculously came to life, on the NBC soap opera Passions; during heart surgery; in San Diego. Born with a rare disease that stunted his heart, Evans also had roles on Ally McBeal and in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas...
...feel like even really good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial and bedroom secrets of a newspaper-mogul family...
White's first career break, though, was as a writer for the WB's more well-scrubbed teen soap Dawson's Creek. "That was very difficult for me because it was about people who are better-looking than the normal person and more eloquent, and they live these more exciting lives," White says. "To me, watching that kind of thing is oppressive." But he does have a commercial streak. Orange County was a rare, mature teen comedy with well-drawn characters and a surprising message: an aspiring teenage writer (Colin Hanks) discovers he doesn't have to escape his suburban...
Could there have been a more fitting sponsor for the event than Imperial Leather soap? Britain’s famous sense of irony must have gone AWOL the night that the sponsorship deal was signed...
...even have our own television station, now—Lifetime, “Television for Women.” How could women be expected to find television programming suitable for themselves without their own special channel? And what liberated woman of the 21st century could survive without cooking shows, soap operas and made-for-TV movies...