Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 1,400 radio stations and 35 TV stations. Four religious "networks" feed programs via satellite to stations and to thousands of cable-TV hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit (Anita Bryant, Art Linkletter, Boxer George Foreman, born-again Watergate Felon Charles Colson...
...plot they followed was perfect soap opera, but history should have asked for better actors to play the protagonists...
...around often. A rare combination of deft acting and a believable story, it draws you in, holds your attention and forces you to become emotionally involved. It was not an easy movie to write or direct, but Robert Benton has succeeded in treading the fine line between washed-out soap opera and documentary. The result is a rare treat--a film that does not preach but makes its point, a film that makes you feel but does not jerk, a film that does not pretend to have all the answers...
...during the pre-season training in 1978 after sharp policy and personality differences. Recalls Defensive End Fred Dryer: "It was a macabre scenario. We were told at times that George Allen was showing up, that [Coach] Don Shula was on the next plane from Miami. If this was a soap opera, you couldn't make a script for it. No one would believe...
Larry Hagman, Texas-born star of Dallas, on the city behind the soap opera: "If we did the real Dallas, they wouldn...