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pilots, etc.

I went over to futoncritic and they report Chris O'Donnell and Aidan Quinn are doing pilots for the '05-'06 season. Whoa more film actors going to TV, I 'm thinking GM was absolutely right...9-11 changed things and even in showbiz...actors wanting more stability and steady paycheck? I don't ever recall in the last ten yrs this many film actors going to primetime TV!!!!! Remember when it was norm that film stars did some TV before doing filmwork? That TV was just a steppin stone to "greater things" Will SMith, Tom Hanks, Julianne Moore, and Robin Williams all come to mind.

Well CSI and Desperate Housewives are raking in 25 million viewers a week, and it got me thinking. Fifteen years ago, top shows like Cheers and L.A. Law was bringing in 45 million viewers a week! Guess what happened...the onset of cable. Yup as many folks maybe, I'm a cable junkie now. TLC, HGTV, Food Network...the pie has been sliced more and more. And perhaps this is good for everyone in a sense. More selection and more selection for actors to land shows. I can't believe once upon a time there were only three networks prior to 1987 and no cable til 1979!

I'm admittedly still a soap freak and it got me thinking with the slow death of soaps over the past years, and networks really not caring to fund them and slashing budgets, would there be a possibility of just showing soaps only on soapnet? Since I never hear cable channels folding (just seems to add on more and more with the older ones never fading), I wonder if this is the case. I dunno if soapnet would be wiling to buy all of the nine soaps...

top soap moments 2004

this was a hilarious snarky top ten list..."BEST SOAP of 2004: NONE!" TVguide was a bit nicer, their top soap of 2004 was given to 1988 airings of Another World currently on Soapnet.... LINK

don't mean to freak out but

I haven't seen GH for awhile and I saw a screensnap of Lucky and Liz kissing, and I freaked out. Greg V GREW HIS HAIR OUT????? Was he tryin to imitate Jonathan Jackson or something? And also I'm wondering about comfort levels of kissing. Guess it depends on the partner about open-mouth kissing. Peyton and Grayson really didn't have problems really gettin into it, it kills me everytime to see Peyton's mouth opened in screenshots. Rick H and Becky Herbst took it to a new art level sucking lips and smooshing bodies. Okay I digress, back to the surfer dude hair...I dunno but it seems that long hair just doesn't work well with soaphunks. Case in points: Ricky Paull Goldin, Agim Kaba, Grayson, Rick Hearst when he had the mullet going or bangs. After cuttin hair? Rock solid bonafide soaphunks. Please soaphunks, I begg of you,keep CUTTING YOUR HAIR!

I've been looking at the Another World 35th anniversary book, and nice to know they acknowledged kinda that Grayson was on this show. As an aside Julian McMahon was on AW though can't even recall if he's mentioned! Geez he did one year at least. Which got me wondering...Tom Eplin and Jensen Buchanan were Hugely popular on this soap...heck I didn't watch AW until very late in the game, and I still knew who they were before then. where the heck are they now???? Jensen worked 14 straight yrs on three soaps and for the past four yrs the only role she got was a guest spot on Everwood in 2003? Tom hasn't done anything since exiting ATWT in 2002, and he was working since the 80s constantly. What a Cruel world of show biz!

yet another blurb on my magazine ventures

Well, oddly I wonder if other mags have done this...I recently got a Hollywood Life mag subscription, but have no idea how I got it. I must've filled out an online form that gave me one with no cost. Knock on wood. They did the oddest thing. I'm gettin back issues from last fall and seemingly my subscription ends in Sept. '05 to complete the "one yr". Did they have leftover back issues to get rid of?

Anyway, I read my 3 issues this weekend, and can't remember anything except for Matt Long's lil blurb interview. He's now on Jack and Bobby, a show I've never seen. What caught my eye? "I am really impressed with my manager's faith in me. I did a screen test for a soap opera and ended up getting it. He said no even though he wasn't gettin a cent becuase he knew there were better things in store for me." GEEZ yet another rant on Soap Operas! I've read stacks and stacks of these celeb mags, and talk about ignoring daytime and revving it up with the other entertainment genres! What a death march for soaps! I'm only hoping that Peyton doesn't rant on ATWT, then again she worked with Hunt, Cady, Grayson, and Mary Beth. Peyton, read Julianne Moore's interviews and Study them. As a star, she even did a Soap Digest interview in 2002!!!

YM Magazine had FOLDED!

Wow, another teen mag that I used to read has closed shop this month. subscribers are now going to get teen vogue instead. I had a losing streak going on too---I subscribed to Jump, Biography, and a plus-size women's mag that I can't recall the name of...ALL of them folded after I finished my subscription (well Biography is offered free now 4x a yr)...so glad the streak was broken since I didn't subscribe to YM. Anyhoo, since the startup of Elle Girl, Teen Vogue, and Teen Cosmo, not a Big big loss

I read that since 1996 there are 8 new bridal magazines. Which is the opposite ofr soap mags...there used to be around 9 in circulation, now it's down to 3! SID, SOD, and SOW.

acting salaries

I went over to IMDB and I was just floored at the actors' reported salaries....Rachael Leigh Cook made 1.5 million for Josie and the Pussycats?????? I cannot believe it. I took a glance at Kristen Kreuk's salary for her first yr on Smallville, WB only shelled out 40,000 dollars for her? No wonder she continued that and her Canadian Soap, Edgemont doing both shows simultaneously.

I know TV pays less than movies, but this is too much of a discrepancy! I know that TV is more consistent if your show gets renewed yr after yr, but I guess with networks dependent only on ads revenue vs. fans paying to watch cinema, there's a difference.

Smallville

okay my thoughts about Peyton guesting on Smallville...wow, I hadn't seen this series in years...it's now in its fourth season...to refresh myself, I went to various boards to read up on stuff, DId not know Jensen Ackles is now on this show! Wow, hadn't seen him since Days of Our Lives...6-7 yrs ago! Also sad to hear that Clark's parents aren't shown as much, cuz I recall they were integral to the shows. I saw lots of shipper banners and I always had a different feelin about shipping on Primetime shows. With just 22-24 eps, can viewers realy sway the writers fast enough to make grand changes? I see campaigns all the time on daytime, but with more eps to work on, I thought it was inevitable. (then again, I can see you can be for dream pairings on primetime shows not necessarily campaign for them)
The only time I heard of fanoutcry workin on primetime was for Dallas where an entire season was blanked out as just a dream.

I saw Cellular last night, and I lurved it, however I saw a Peyton lookalike in the beginning, and I'm like I don't recall Peyton bein in this movie. Well...alas, it was Jessica Biel! Dang they look so alike! I'm wondering with both of them vying for work in Hollywood is it going to be like gettin Julia Stiles and Erika Christensen mixed up!

guess my thoughts for today

Ok I finally posted that SOD "Nice Work if u can Get It " article, and I didn't dawn on me on how so many film actors have now gone to TV, usually this was the route of an actor really late in his/her career---Donna Reed, etc. Gary Sinise, Glenn Close, the Sheens, Kiefer Sutherland, Patricia Arquette, Dylan McD all had/have TV roles on primetime series! No wonder Grayson felt squashed out!

I just got the new issue of Jane today and it's my first time seein a Shia Lebeouf article, Shia is playing the lead role in Peyton's new film (well Peyton plays his honey) about a golfer. Dang Shia is really doggin on teeny bopper movies! Guess he wants to be a "serious" long-term actor. IAs an aside, Jodie Foster's teen movies didn't hurt her dramatic turns, but I digress.


Ok simpsons is on now, so I'll think of more stuff later.

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