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 college students in unusually high numbers, suddenly expanding the...

All My Children (AMC) is a popular American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5 1970. AMC was created by Agnes Nixon. Although Nixon had created One Life to Live for ABC following her success...

When we last tuned in to the soap-opera saga of the disputatious Phillips family, mother Matina Phillips DeSimone, widow of Acton conglomerateur Samuel Phillips, was suing her five children in Middlesex Superior Court for $1 million plus restoration of her $112,000-a-year salary at the...

Yesterday, millions of people watched the 20th anniversary of "All My Children"-the most videotaped show in America. ABC celebrated with clips. It was a walk down a certain kind of memory lane. A lane of bad lines and brilliant, bad acting. The things...

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 tackling serious subjects as well as the usual murder and betrayal, is...

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 all of us have made at one time or another," Spears is...

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 audience. Such a relationship we can call a model or paradigm. The analysis can then go on to describe various transformations of this model into other aspects of the writer's relationship to the reader. For example, let us say that the "principal" relationship obtaining between writer and audience is an exchange whereby the wri...

[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 daytime lineup. (p. 129) And where do those ideas and themes come from? From life, from the world around us, as perceived by a writer highly attuned to the problems and passions that move us all. This, without doubt, is Agnes Nixon's most valuable asset and greatest talent, this finely tuned sensibility both to the moods of the time and to its stresses. If h...

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 her … article, "The 'Good' Women Still Drink Sherry"—in which she hurled the indictment that "the soaps have yet to come to grips with reality in any meaningful way" [see excerpt above]—I am impelled to a counter-indictment. Ms. Knopf has either failed in a reporter's pri...