Well reading all of the responses to her departure on jossip and here, I guess I'm wrong to feel for her but maybe SOW will rectify a wrong done to Mimi Torchin and put her back at helm. I was so upset when she was fired.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by ljacks13

I would think people would feel a little sorry for her, she did lose a job she loved. I know what feels like to be fired, it is not fun.

Nope, sorry. Actually I think it would be a fabulous charity fundraiser to allow people to bid for a chance to put a foot in her ass. I'm willing to bet we'd raise the most money from her ex-coworkers and former ABC actors (I can think of a few by name).

http://www.jossip.com/soap-opera-weekly-ed...fired-20080807/

That thread is OFF THE HOOK. Have you LOOKED at those comments

After her comments during the aftermath of Jax's rape by Irina, I've had no use for her. Especially since she knew she was talking out of her ass due to the fact that she ended her ignorant ass statement with a disclaimer about how it's just her opinion and don't flame her and blah, blah, blah... Damn, if you're that worried about people forming a lynch mob about your precious little opinion... maybe you should just keep your mouth shut? But we all know how I feel about that, the whole "It's only my opinion, so keep your opinions about my opinions to yourself" crap.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by R Sinclair

She herself felt it was no big deal that vets were losing their jobs, kind of hard to feel bad for her for that reason IMO.

Well reading all of the responses to her departure on jossip and here, I guess I'm wrong to feel for her but maybe SOW will rectify a wrong done to Mimi Torchin and put her back at helm. I was so upset when she was fired.

Ugh please no, that would be going from bad to worse

However, I digress. She was in no particular network's pocket. She was in no particular show's pocket.

Then she certainly made it look as though she did.

I feel like I should write her another open letter.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by Vee

That thread is OFF THE HOOK. Have you LOOKED at those comments

MarkH, I KNOW! People are getting outed. Affairs are being brought out into the open. There's an intoxicating mood in that thread. She pissed off a lot of people.

That thread is OFF THE HOOK. Have you LOOKED at those comments

It's like a train wreck, I can't turn away, it's all too delicious.

Admittedly, I posted something a bit delicious on there as well.

Every nasty story you ever heard about Carolyn is probably true. She drove out everyone at Digest or Weekly who had talent (you can’t do that without support from the top, however).

The “Big C” — as some referred to her as — was an ABC gal; she didn’t even know who Charita Bauer was when it came time to do a GL anniversary issue.

She had rules for herself and she had rules for her staff — totally the opposite.

She stomped around on one set, acting like the actors were all her BFFs. They weren’t. One stood behind her waving his arms at a publicst as if to say “Get rid of her!”

She had/has an obsession with one actress on a top-rated soap and always wrote about her in flattering ways. She REFUSED to write about a recast once because she “took” her “friend’s” job.

Ridiculous.

She was very sensitive about her weight and size. Somebody made an on-air crack about her girth once and that person was “dead to her.”

And when it came to the Digest awards, she steamrolled over other editors’ choices so she could get her “friends” on the ballot.

This is some juicy stuff! And I'm only on the third post!

Oh, and if you don’t agree with anything posted here, Carolyn, don’t give it another thought.

Seriously.

It is, after all, ONLY OUR OPINION!!!

LOL!

I’ll always remember, back in the days when the SOD offices were in Chelsea, Ms. Hinsey would actually ride the elevator with her checkbook open, not even balancing it, so we could all see the tens of thousand of dollars listed. Pathetic.

Dear Readers,

It’s always a great release when a soap opera villain or villainess gets what’s coming to them! Remember Roger Thorpe falling to (what we thought) was his death on GL? How about when Marlena pumped lead into Stefano on DAYS? Or when DALLAS’ Jamie Ewing smashed a whipped cream dessert into Cliff Barnes’ face for being such an ass?

Well, someone at Soap Opera Weekly got her ‘just desserts’ today! The company canned Carolyn Hinsey, known to readers as the writer of the popular “It’s Only My Opinion” column and to current and past editors of SOD and SPW as “that crazy bitch, who’s ruining my life.”

This non-sweeps moment caught many by surprise. (Especially Carolyn!)But not me. Now, ingenues that weigh under 175 lbs. will get a break in the magazine and head writers and network executives won’t live in fear that their assistants will buzz them and say, “It’s Carolyn. She wants to have drinks at Blondie’s!”

Alas, Roger and Cliff are gone now, but perhaps someday Carolyn, like Stefano, will come bursting out of Marlena’s amoire and scare the [!@#$%^&*] out of all of us!

In the meantime, dear readers, savor this moment, and turn to crinkly page 118 and read our answer to a question about how many actors played SANTA BARBARA’s C.C. Capwell. (Two friends have a steak dinner riding on it!)

The answer may surprise you (Lloyd Bochner?) But, fortunately, there was only one Carolyn!

“Lynn L.”

Editorial Director

http://www.daytimeconfidential.....nsey-fired

from DS9Sisko:

“If this is true, I must ask what in heaven’s name have I and soap fans around the globe done to deserve such a wealth of sudsy blessings recently????

The fact of the matter is that Hinsey turned Soap Opera Weekly (which I have read religiously since its inception…at newsstand prices) into a fashion obsessed, rumor mongering, spoilerific bit of yellow journalism that barely managed to remain credible despite itself.

First, let me give a bit of credit where it is justly due. Hinsey did allow some readers who disagreed with her some space to rebut her in SOW. She also helped bring attention in the pages of SOW to some of prime time’s best soaps/series including Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, and, yeah, Grey’s Lobotomy…er, Anatomy. I have also found myself in agreement with Hinsey on some issues, like overzealous fans and the occasional specific opinion about this show or that storyline. Most importantly, after her most recent foray into trying to compete with OK! and US magazines, she (or somebody) recently returned more of a focus on soaps to the pages of the magazine.

But I have nothing but contempt for the way she helped turn one of the most respected soap publications into a little more than reflection of her own ego. While SOW’s news and previews have been mostly solid, Hinsey long ago jettisoned the high journalistic standards set by Mimi Torchin and mostly maintained by Torchin’s successors. I do not believe I ever saw as many retractions, clarifications or corrections from previous regimes as I did under Hinsey’s. Long gone have been constructive and intellectual criticisms of the shows, only to be replaced by non-stop harangues that can be found on any Internet soap board including the ridiculous “Rage Page” that is dedicated to what people hate about their soaps without equal time given to what people love about their soaps.

Soap Opera Weekly used to have a substantial number of interviews with the biggest soap stars, working producers and head writers. But that has been replaced by asinine features like “Double Take” where you’re supposed to spot the 10 differences in Photoshopped pictures taken from a soap scene, which is something I used to do in second grade with Weekly Reader. And, most offensive of all for this daytime fan, Carolyn’s interviews with various soap celebs invariably have been more about what she wanted and didn’t want to see as a fan as opposed to a credible soap journalist trying to gain insight into these people and various aspects of the genre.

And that has been the true problem with SOW for the last couple of years. SOW has become a reflection of Carolyn’s “It’s Only My Opinion” column in sister mag Soap Opera Digest that more often than not has belittled the very genre and industry it has covered rather than reporting soap opera news and providing critical insight into the shows and stories both negative AND positive. It is for this latter reason that Lynn Leahy, editor of SOD, has run rings around Hinsey as an editor and made SOD a much more insightful and credible publication than SOW.

When it comes to daytime drama journalism — now more than ever as the genre struggles to remain relevant and even on the air — there is a need for champions, impartial observers, and fair minded critics. Not frenemies like Carolyn Hinsey, whose editorial efforts at SOW have been as detrimental to the genre as any budget cutting producer, mob-obsessed head writers, or disgusted viewers.

I really hope this news is true. After all…it’s only my opinion.”

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by detroitpiston

Damn these people are ruthless! They outed at least four stars. But I don't buy the two they claimed were having an affair.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by detroitpiston

If you keep on 35 and 70 year old shows, some of your viewers will have been with you that long. In that case, for the show to remain the show, you have to also keep some of the vets.

Y&R does this best.

If you stop trying to create such endless sagas, but give these shows defined life spans (not 13 week telenovelas, but like successful primetime shows, 5 or 7 years), with planned endings (known to the creators from the beginning), the "dictatorship" stops.

I am so happy DonnaB is here, too! Yay!  As she noted correctly, I was a bit too ironic, but I'm seriously puzzled by this all-American thing. Yes, I know people in other countries like their veterans, too - but they wouldn't mind the killing off if it's done properly. 

This is one of the reasons daytime has failed, this whole incessant insisting on vets. People focus more on whether Nikki is in the story than on whether the story is actually good. 

And P. S. yes, I detest Nikki, the screechy little hamster that pollutes my TV screen.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by Sylph

That thread is OFF THE HOOK. Have you LOOKED at those comments

I know. Christmas has come early!

Woohoo!

Even if they don't rehire Mimi Torchin like they should, maybe now SOW will get an editor who writes real English, "dontcha" think?

I hated Hinsey because I found her opinions mostly stupid (she loved GH's Sonny and once called AMC's Ryan & Greenlee the show's money couple), and her overblown attitude came across as irritating in her columns.

I love this woman. I honestly do.

Me, Her, Julie Pinson, Rebecca Budig, Jackie Zeman, Maura West, and a few other amazing soap woman had a great disucssion at last years emmys. best converstaion of my life.

CH def was not who i expected her to be. She was nice, friendly, funny, and just kinda amazing. But then again i always have great luck with people who are deemed a bitch. so...

and meeting someone at a party and working for them. well very diff people a lot of the time.

Edited August 8, 200817 yr by JackPeyton