Word: soaping
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...Director, Costume Designer, and Live-Action Short Film (for my on-set video diary.) The film will of course be a biopic, considering that three of the five Best Picture nominees this year (Finding Neverland, Ray, and The Aviator) are based-on-a-true-story, nostalgia-drenched, indulgent soap operas. My biopic, however, will break new ground in special effects and narrative form. Titled The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of Women in Science, it will chronicle the life of Lawrence H. Summers during his rocky years as President of Harvard University...
With a hip soundtrack and a cast packed with attractive members of Harvard’s thespian elite, Ivory Tower is developing a burgeoning undergrad fan base. The latest episode of the Harvard sitcom, which claims to be “redefining America’s soap opera,” features rule-breaking romance and sinisterly flirtatious freshmen. But will the back-stabbing, scandals, and sexscapades of the Harvardian specimen ever rival the creme de la creme of self-indulgent, mindless programming—that is, The OC? FM investigates...
This year's Academy Awards telecast can be grateful for at least one thing: it doesn't have to compete against Desperate Housewives. ABC's sexy soap has already beaten the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the People's Choice Awards in the ratings so far this year. And with the Oscarcast dropping steadily in the ratings over the past few years (to a low of 33 million viewers in 2003, though last year it showed a slight uptick) and a lack of big box-office hits among this year's nominees, the stage seems set for another ratings fizzle...
...state television broadcast hinted last month that one of Kim's children would one day take over the task of building paradise on earth. But North Koreans, who these days prefer to get their drama from pirated South Korean soap operas, may no longer care. Most North Koreans don't even know how many sons the Dear Leader has, says Park Sang Hak, a defector and human-rights activist in Seoul. "People are too tired of endless hunger and threats of war to think about the succession," says Park. About all they could expect from a coronation ceremony might...
...hand, the story is filled with events familiarly annoying from everyday life and thus accessible. Wouldn’t you just like to turn the bad-smelling kid from section into a giant bar of soap? The drawings also define the story. Without the pictures, there would be no way of seeing the underlying pathos to a seemingly funny situation. The embodiment of God’s wrath is unarguably pathetic as Corrigan is left alone to stare at his Rookie of the Year photo, while his police comrades go home to loving wives...