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While Springer said he does not think his show encourages immoral behavior, he said he sees soap operas and big-budget movies as blurring lines between good and bad behavior. Springer says his show does not exploit people...
DIED. RICHARD MULLIGAN, 67, lovably paternal character actor best known as the oddball Burt Campbell on the sitcom Soap; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Mulligan began his career as a writer before appearing in dozens of TV shows, movies and plays. In 1980 he won an Emmy for Soap and in 1989 earned another for playing a good-natured widower on Empty Nest...
...said before the Games they were going to turn the Marion Jones story into a weeklong soap opera. They didn't have to work hard at that! But I'll tell you, she was not the story of this meet - not really. She was one story, and Mo and Michael and Stacy and Haile and Cathy, especially Cathy - they were stories...
...years people have accused Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a brutal and authoritarian government right out of a dictator's textbook. But last week Fujimori's regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...
Coincidentally, Spelling too is revisiting his past, but much differently, with NBC's Titans (Wednesdays starting Oct. 4, 8 p.m. E.T.), a Robin Leach-y soap apparently sealed in a Beverly Hills time capsule circa 1985. Richard Williams (Perry King), the aging lion of conglomerate Williams Global Enterprises, is taking a hot new wife (Baywatch's Yasmine Bleeth) who has designs on his dough--and a secret romantic history with his son (a constipated-seeming Casper Van Dien), a hotshot pilot newly returned from the Navy. Family chaos, and frequent barings of skin, ensues...