Another unanswered quesiton i've always had it why are all Soap towns full of white folk?

Ooh, an easy one!

But seriously, who's writing, producing and sponsoring the shows? Who has been the predominant audience for nearly 60 years? You know the answers.

Would you want to be around them, if you were a minority?

Yes. Exclusion equals extinction.

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Mine will all be AMC--some of mine have already been asked (the Ted/Tad thing STILL irks me), but here's more:

Where are Opal's OTHER sons, Petey and Adrian?

Why didn't Langley get a funeral?

Is Kendall's brother, Trey, still in jail? Does she remember she HAS a brother? I guess if you don't have Kane DNA, Kendall doesn't want you in her family (see adopted mother, Alice Hart)

Why haven't Adam and Myrtle ever talked about Skye being her granddaughter?

Is Tempo running itself? How about WRCW?

Ooh, an easy one!

But seriously, who's writing, producing and sponsoring the shows? Who has been the predominant audience for nearly 60 years? You know the answers.

But that is no excuse...as an aspiring writer myself, I can personally say that creative storytelling that revolves around contemporary society MUST incorporate the realistic multiculturalism of this nation is the work is to be of any quality and/or relevance...and contrary to the excuse that it is hard for white writers to 'write the black experience', to me there is no such thing...it's all about the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

Wasn't Erica 15 in 1970? I saw a thing on Soapnet where Susan says "I started playing her as a 15 year old high school student"......

PC: What happened to Ellen Burgess when she disappeared?

Good one, I love to know that too!

I used to watch B&B until I couldn't take Brooke and Ridge Version 1000. Has the show ever addressed the Sally Spectra situation. A friend told me no, but I can't believe they wouldn't have some sort of tribute show, like ATWT did with Benjamin Hendrickson.

Wasn't Erica 15 in 1970? I saw a thing on Soapnet where Susan says "I started playing her as a 15 year old high school student"......

But, IIRC, Chuck, Erica, Phil and Tara all graduated from Pine Valley High circa 1971.

I always knew Erica was a crafty and clever person, but ... , lol.

AFAIK, Sedrick, Marland wanted a grittier, more blue-collar feel for LOVING, whereas Nixon envisioned the show to be as satirical as AMC.

Thanks Khan for providing an answer to a burning question I had harbored for YEARS!

IMO Marland was right...Nixon's 'vision' instantly became nothing more than poor imitation.

On a similar note, I've read that originally Nixon was creating what would become LOVING not with Marland but instead with novelist Dan Wakefield, who had written the book "ALL HER CHILDREN", a backstage account of AMC, back in the 70's, as well as creating and writing the acclaimed but short-lived NBC primetime drama JAMES at 15 (16) in the late 70's. So the new question is, what derailed Nixon's collaboration with Wakefield?

But, IIRC, Chuck, Erica, Phil and Tara all graduated from Pine Valley High circa 1971.

I always knew Erica was a crafty and clever person, but ... , lol.

Yes, La Kane was 15 at the start of AMC, but within a year or so she had become a sophisticated doctor's wife and aspiring model. Of course when Erica reached the age of 35, she apparently stopped aging.

You mean, Erica attended Woodstock when she fourteen!?

IMO Marland was right...Nixon's 'vision' [for LOVING] instantly became nothing more than poor imitation.

IA, Sedrick. A soap lives and dies by its' own unique identity. LOVING, though, felt like a Designer Impostors' version of AMC.

OTOH, if Marland hadn't have fallen out with Nixon over the show's direction, he might never have agreed to return to ATWT, which would probably have been off the airwaves by the early or mid-'90's.