PID: OMX 1.00.DOS [NR]
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-> On 03 Dec 06  16:31:05, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: relationship

 DC> I think what amazes me is that they tend to really believe that those 
 DC> characters and those lives are actually real.  That is even more 
 DC> astonishing in that the acting is generally very poor.  

 NB> It's a willing suspension of reality, as far as I can tell...  Perhaps
 NB> the poor acting gives it a sense of verisimilitude...?  (See... they
 NB> HAVE to be real... actors would do a better job!  (Or something like
 NB> that...  ))

LOL!  Actually, there are some good actors in them (at times).  And 
many a star has gotten their first role on a soap.  Some, like 
Susam Lucci, are stuck there forever.  

 DC> What I find even more interesting is that you only have to watch 
 DC> one show a week.  The Monday show gives a full recap of last week's 
 DC> earth-shaking developments.  

 NB> What's worse, one can see one show and then, a year or two later,
 NB> happen to see another, and STILL not have lost the thread....!  Or, see
 NB> it years later, and still recognize some/most of the characters... 
 NB> Granted, 20 years later one needs to watch a couple of shows to pick
 NB> up the story line again... sort of...  The plots don't really change
 NB> all that much... it's just the "next generation" doing it
this time...
 
See above!  Susan Lucci started her character as a teenager.  She's 
now one of the matriarchs.  



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