All My Children
From its January 5, 1970, debut, soap opera All My Children, with its emphasis on young love and such topical issues as abortion, the Vietnam War, and the environment, attracted colleg...
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Critical Essay by R. E. Johnson, Jr.
A structuralist study of [All My Children] might begin by trying to reconstruct and describe one feature or phase of the relationship between the writer and the a...
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Critical Essay by Time
[Agnes Nixon has welded Irna] Phillips' home truths to such trendy themes as cervical cancer, racial prejudice and drug addiction. Nixon has at one time or another writt...
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Critical Essay by Dan Wakefield
The "All My Children" phenomenon is part of a confluence of different forces that are making soap opera respectable….
I am not about to stake a...
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Critical Essay by Manuela Soares
All My Children is a light-hearted soap—perhaps the only light-hearted soap on the air. It may also be characterized as a home-and-family soap, in the doctor-l...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Warrick with Don Preston
[Nixon's] inventive mind spins out a constant skein of exciting and relevant plots that have made All My Children the leading show in the daytim...
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Critical Essay by Stephanie Harrington
A report in The Times heralding ABC-TV's new soap opera, "All My Children," was headlined: "Social Activism Grips Soap Opera; Heroin...
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Critical Essay by Agnes Nixon
As the creator-writer of both "One Life To Live" and "All My Children," two soap operas of which Terry Ann Knopf was particularly critical in...
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Critical Essay by Terry Ann Knopf
Given Ms. Nixon's involvement in the more creative aspects of television, I am especially dismayed by her remarks insofar as they reveal qualities all too com...
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Erica Kane may not be so selfish after all. The "All My Children" diva, played by Susan Lucci, will focus attention on her grandson's deafness in upcoming episodes.The ABC soap opera, known for tac...
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Lynne Spears says her daughter Britney, whose public meltdown included shearing off her own locks, is "just figuring things out." "It's sad that the whole world had to watch her make mistakes that ...
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All those red-eye flights finally ground soap opera star Cameron Mathison down. After working to become the consensus most-improved celebrity on "Dancing with the Stars," Mathison, who spent the se...
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Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies pounded insurgent positions in the capital with bombs and tank shells Thursday, sending residents fleeing a surge in fighting that killed at least 10 people...
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The complete list of Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards winners:Individual achievement in animation (tie): "The Backyardigans," Nickelodeon; "Ben 10," Cartoon Network; and "Jakers! The Adventures o...
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"Las Vegas" hunk Josh Duhamel and his girlfriend, Fergie, are a match made in Hollywood heaven with hot looks to match their hot careers. But Fergie, who's been heating up the pop charts, is the fl...
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Madeleine L'EngleHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Author Madeleine L'Engle, whose novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has captivated generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, died Thursday, her publici...
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BAGHDAD, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iraqis displaced by
fierce battles between al Qaeda militants and U.S. and Iraqi
security forces began receiving humanitarian aid on Monday at a
camp set up ...
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Nichole Thompson-Adams.
We're puzzling over this Corcoran broker's appearance at the Cherry Lane Theater in a one-woman show called, "Black Girl, You've Been Gentrified!"
An excerpt from the pre...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 6-13:May 6: Singer Bob Seger is 62. Singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore is 62. Actor Alan Dale ("Ugly Betty") is 60. Actor Ben Masters ("Passions") is 60. Host Tom Be...
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All My Children
Critical Essay by R. E. Johnson, Jr.
Serious story line for soap's Erica Kane
