I wish that she could have retired the weekly letter to the editor, because the last years of that letter were:

Look at my lovely vacation shots!

I love the English Patient!

Look at how much I love (fill in the blank primetime show)!

Did I mention how much I love the English patient?

You Internet people are mean, you say such wicked things, I'm so glad that Judith Light wasn't cast on a soap today! (Because of course, you know that soaps circa the late 90s were SO likely to cast someone who looked like Judith Light)

Was this when JER was hired as a consultant at AW and helped lead to stories like Vampire Boy and the Witch/Rachel lookalike?

I wish that she could have retired the weekly letter to the editor, because the last years of that letter were:

Look at my lovely vacation shots!

I love the English Patient!

Look at how much I love (fill in the blank primetime show)!

Did I mention how much I love the English patient?

You Internet people are mean, you say such wicked things, I'm so glad that Judith Light wasn't cast on a soap today! (Because of course, you know that soaps circa the late 90s were SO likely to cast someone who looked like Judith Light)

SPW just wasn't the same after Marlena De Lacroix and Mimi Torchin left - the magazine was pretty awesome when they were there.

ITA. SPW never recovered from losing Marlena and Mimi. The magazine lost all its backbone and basically became PR for the soaps. I also remember the Days boycott. It shows how TPTB helped water the genre through a lack of creativity and intimidation of their critics in the soap media. The stinging criticism of the mainstream media critics is only the reason that I enjoyed James Franco's visit to GH.

SPW

Just outta curiosity... anyone know how/why Soap Opera Weekly became widely abbreviated as SPW instead of SOW?

LOL, I just visited the website and Jill's and Paul's names popped up:

http://marlenadelacroix.com/?p=319#more-319

She made some good points. The "real world" doesn't care anymore, nor have they cared for the past decade. It's like the death of a human: Start off in diapers, end up in diapers. I don't know why that analogy popped into my head but I'll go with it... soaps were first thought of as something for old shut-ins and unemployed housewives, but then they became cool for college kids and youngsters and they became buzzworthy in mainstream press... but now they're back to being known for the old and the unemployed and the simple-minded.

Just outta curiosity... anyone know how/why Soap Opera Weekly became widely abbreviated as SPW instead of SOW?

I was wondering the SAME thing. Figured it was a brain-to-keyboard fart.

I wish that she could have retired the weekly letter to the editor, because the last years of that letter were:

Look at my lovely vacation shots!

I love the English Patient!

Look at how much I love (fill in the blank primetime show)!

Did I mention how much I love the English patient?

You Internet people are mean, you say such wicked things, I'm so glad that Judith Light wasn't cast on a soap today! (Because of course, you know that soaps circa the late 90s were SO likely to cast someone who looked like Judith Light)

:lol:

You Internet people are mean, you say such wicked things, I'm so glad that Judith Light wasn't cast on a soap today! (Because of course, you know that soaps circa the late 90s were SO likely to cast someone who looked like Judith Light)

Maybe she was in the running for Passions' Tabitha

Random memory, did anyone else used to think that Mimi's signature looked like "Mimi Lord"?

I was wondering what the hell SPW was myself. I can't read that in my mind as "sew."

A "SOW" is a female pig.

I'm thinking that isn't a great way to self-refer to a magazine whose targert-market is mostly women.

She made some good points. The "real world" doesn't care anymore, nor have they cared for the past decade. It's like the death of a human: Start off in diapers, end up in diapers. I don't know why that analogy popped into my head but I'll go with it... soaps were first thought of as something for old shut-ins and unemployed housewives, but then they became cool for college kids and youngsters and they became buzzworthy in mainstream press... but now they're back to being known for the old and the unemployed and the simple-minded.

But the thing is, the real world never cared. Oh, sure they did briefly in the very very late 70s into the 80s--arguably, but that's it. If anything, the entertainment press was even less conscious of soap operas in the 50s and 60s than they are now--MUCH less. So it's not really an excuse, IMHO.

But the thing is, the real world never cared. Oh, sure they did briefly in the very very late 70s into the 80s--arguably, but that's it. If anything, the entertainment press was even less conscious of soap operas in the 50s and 60s than they are now--MUCH less. So it's not really an excuse, IMHO.

The huge difference is that in the 50's and 60's, the real world cared but millions of soap fans did. Now, the millions of fans are literally just a few.

Soap operas: back in diapers, and stuck in a nursing home where they are neglected and forgotten by those who once loved and paid attention to them, and all their friends are slowly dying out.

Edited June 12, 201015 yr by Gray Bunny

A "SOW" is a female pig.

I'm thinking that isn't a great way to self-refer to a magazine whose targert-market is mostly women.

So is SPW in fact the "proper" abbreviation these days? If so, gee, I wonder who was behind that. (Follow my eyes...)

So is SPW in fact the "proper" abbreviation these days? If so, gee, I wonder who was behind that. (Follow my eyes...)

Maybe the sow herself?