Cummings, Elijah E. Baltimore Afro-American 09-29-2000 We have one life to live On Sept. 14, actor and director Charles "Roc" Dutton and an expert panel joined me in Washington to discuss the importance of expanded drug treatment, mental health services and job...

Cummings, Elijah E. Baltimore Afro-American 04-27-2001 We have but one life to live Dr. Harold Freeman is traveling across America, asking a question that goes to our fundamental morality as a society. "Why," Dr. Freeman demands, "don't all Americans get the best...

For the last decade acclaimed Upper West Side horror novelist Peter Straub has followed the ABC soap opera One Life to Live with such dogged enthusiasm that earlier this year the producers awarded him a walk-on role. “I played retired detective Pete Braust,” Mr. Straub...

Nathaniel Marston, who plays a doctor on ABC's "One Life to Live," has been released without bail following his arraignment on assault and other charges in an altercation in midtown Manhattan.Marston, 32, attacked three men with a crate around 4:30 a.m. Sunday at 10th Avenue...

The contrast between [the realism of "One Life to Live" and the classical canon of daytime television drama embodied in "As the World Turns"] shows that what James Thurber once called "Soapland," like American society as a whole, is torn between the need to keep up with changing realities and the desire to stick to tried-and-true formulas that have never expressed reality—to tell it like it isn't. The search for relevance has led daytime drama to deal ...

Out there in Middle America, where the rate of addiction to soap opera is high, viewers of ABC's "One Life to Live" … have been getting regular five-minute doses of unrehearsed, spontaneous confrontations between real-life former dope addicts and the actress who plays Cathy Craig, "One Life"'s troubled teen-ager…. When Amy Levitt, who acts Cathy, began to interact with the ex-addicts the cameras turned, the resulting talk was much gutsier than the writ...