The author used to "write" as she would put it for a couple of soap mags:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-14/the-slow-death-of-soaps/

So basically, she got a job at soap magazines to make fun of them, and she only connected to actors by assuming they, like her, were slumming. But now, happily ever after, she has "a real job"...writing at The Daily Beast, which seems to be a pseudo-intellectual version of Huffington Post.

I love this comment:

It's a shame that this author was at Radio City the night Susan Lucci won the Emmy, since the awards were at Madison Square Garden that year.

I enjoy a lot of the comments. She wrote a headline that has little to do with her story, which seems to be mostly about how she lowered herself to do soaps and met people who were obsessed. I'm glad her readers didn't seem to be as condescending as her tone was.

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by CarlD2

That's the gist I got

It's just ridiculous. This headline and then we get three pages of her gazing at her own navel, ending in her patting herself on the back because she now has a "real" job where she writes for some webzine which is a hybrid of a million other webzines.

The only thing I got out of it was that photo of Julianne Moore I'd never seen before.

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by CarlD2

I knew her. She was fired. It wasn't a lay-off. She and one other person were replaced by two new editors.

As the article sort of indicates, she definitely didn't have a passion for soaps. She even snickers at her colleagues who did.

She was a nice person. But she clearly never appreciated what soaps had to offer. This article only affirms that for me.

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by YurSoakinginit

what an awful... AWFUL.. write up.

Wow, she really was an unhappy camper.

I always wondered why soap stars are so disconnected from the rest of hollywood, they get no shine anywhere other than the soapworld. Their celebrity status is below reality stars.

I don't doubt that the people in the industry love their jobs and doing what they are doing but no one outside of soaps seem to take them serious. It seems working in the soap industry is a blessing and a curse.

I had just finished a degree in screenwriting and soon realized that there were no screenwriting jobs available in the pages of The New York Times’ Help Wanted section.

I am supposed to find this amusing and funny?

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Babble, among other publications. She lives with her husband, Claude, and her son, Ezra, in Los Angeles, where she is waited on in restaurants by out-of-work soap opera actors who recognize her not at all.

She was a nice person. But she clearly never appreciated what soaps had to offer. This article only affirms that for me.

Yes. I don't think she hated them or felt contempt, she was just — uninterested. Nor do I think she thought of the job she had as a lower-class one.

what an awful... AWFUL.. write up.

Awful it isn't. Kind of. Missing the point and meandering off-topic — yes. But this:

They weren't really actors, except that they acted every day.

What on Earth were they then?

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by Sylph

Ugh. What a pretentious, condescending bore. Made even more annoying by the LOOKA THESE HERE FAMOUS FOLK WHO DID THE SOAPS!!!!!!!!!!111111oneoneone crap.

The comments are hilarious, though. Chrishell!

Yes. I don't think she hated them or felt contempt, she was just — uninterested. Nor do I think she thought of the job she had as a lower-class one.

Sarcasm?

Yo, Taffy. You think putting down former co-workers, betraying your hard-working actor "friends" by calling them sad sacks and comparing your unfulfilling career to 'theirs" constitutes "real writing?" This journalism professor/major publication writer/soap mag alum says good opinion writing is about truth and heart not opportunism and retro-backstabbing.

Sarcasm?

Fun comment from Marlenadlc

ETA And now I notice you posted it.

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by TC

Fun comment from Marlenadlc

ETA And now I notice you posted it.

Yo, Taffy? I just fell off a chair!

Edited December 16, 200915 yr by Sylph

You know it's bad when even I think you're being a condescending, hateful bitch toward the genre and the people in it.

I get it, she hated her job and her life. Been there, done that. But this "article" seems more like an attempt to convince herself that her current life isn't garbage. Try again.