Thursday, August 18, 2011

NEWS ROUNDUP: Kim "Norma Desmond" Zimmer, THE ARCHERS Controversey, Ronnie Marmo

It's a 'Sunset' for Kim Zimmer: She'll be playing Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard" at the Barn Theatre from Aug. 23 to Sept. 4
"With the soap operas kind of coming to the end of their era, I have no problem relating to this poor woman," Zimmer said with a sympathetic laugh. "Because I feel like I'll never work, you know, I'll never have the kind of role I was so successful with for so many years. I won't have to dig very deep to find this character."

"I don’t think this kind of storytelling will ever go away, I just think during the daytime, they can’t afford to produce this kind of television anymore. It’s cheaper to produce another talk show or another game show or a cooking show."

THE ARCHERS, Radio 4's popular drama, has come under fire from a BBC journalist over its portrayal of local radio
Ambridge may seem a million miles away from the phone hacking scandal fascinating Westminster, but has become the unlikely subject of a furious row over journalistic standards.

The Radio 4 soap opera has featured a plotline involving a reporter on the fictional Radio Borsetshire which BBC local broadcast journalists claim has brought their programs into disrepute.

“I wonder how THE ARCHERS production team would feel if BBC News ran a few stories suggesting that network radio drama was unprofessional, sly and, er, a bit rubbish,” complains John Young, of BBC SOUTH EAST TODAY. “Not happy, I suspect. Yet The Archers are currently running a plotline that makes a mockery of local radio.”

GENERAL HOSPITAL's Ronnie Marmo on his character & a new chapter for Theatre 68
"I just shot some stuff where I'm working with Lucky, so I'm excited about that. I'm hoping to be involved in the whole prescription drug ring story. You know, it's exciting because it's a new time. I don't know, we'll see what happens. I'm certainly working a lot coming up, I just don't know what I'm doing yet, so that's good news. I would love to break out and have other discussions other than police talk."

DESPERATE HOSUEWIVES, BREAKING BAD: When is it the right time to pull the plug?
When is the right time to pull the plug on a show? How does closure come? And why do we, as viewers, sometimes have such a hard time letting go?

Soap suds bring smiles to San Francisco in ‘The Final Scene’
The comedy play — developed in Santa Rosa and now at Thick House — about the last day of filming for a long-reigning soap star crackles with an air of authenticity thanks to Abravaya’s experience working in daytime drama. It also careens deftly into farce, with perhaps just a dollop too much of the genre’s ever-present melodrama served up at the end.

No comments:

Post a Comment