Members DRW50 Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 Was this when JER was hired as a consultant at AW and helped lead to stories like Vampire Boy and the Witch/Rachel lookalike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 Just outta curiosity... anyone know how/why Soap Opera Weekly became widely abbreviated as SPW instead of SOW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 I was wondering the SAME thing. Figured it was a brain-to-keyboard fart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 Maybe she was in the running for Passions' Tabitha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 Random memory, did anyone else used to think that Mimi's signature looked like "Mimi Lord"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 I was wondering what the hell SPW was myself. I can't read that in my mind as "sew." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members You're Soaking in it Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 So is SPW in fact the "proper" abbreviation these days? If so, gee, I wonder who was behind that. (Follow my eyes...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 Maybe the sow herself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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