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...jury" the lawyers were addressing here would be likely to tear them a few new orifices if they went all Dylan McDermott in this courtroom. (And note that the unprecedented SCOTUS tapes turned out to be so titillating, so entertaining, that the major networks didn't bother bumping their soap operas for them. Court TV stuck with the Rae Carruth murder trial...
...they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little to do but mud wrestle at times like this, not for the sake of their party causes but for the sake of blind, individual ambition." America, you've tuned in to Tallahassee!, a TV soap opera about rich political white people behaving badly...
...Showtime had a hard time recruiting actors from big agencies, fearful of their clients' being typecast as gay. ("Yeah, I can see how that hurt Billy Crystal's career," sneers Showtime president of programming Jerry Offsay, referring to Crystal's groundbreaking role in Soap in 1977.) Several fashion designers (of all industries!) even refused to have their products placed in the series. The producers eventually cast almost all unknowns, with the exception of Sparks, a former Talk Soup host on E! who concedes he had "some long talks" with his agent, and Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless, who pleaded...
...make two costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...pessimist/cynic opts for the tiger, I suppose. The optimist/romantic votes for the lady. I have a sappy, soap opera kind of mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...