The Welcome Straightforward Soapiness of REVENGEREVENGE is one of the more refreshing pilots of the season: Not because it’s doing anything new, but because it is doing something old, without apologizing for it. Revenge is an old-fashioned melodrama. It is not ironic, or intentionally campy. There is no winking at the camera. There is barely any humor. There is no attempt to smuggle the convoluted, absurd plot into hipper, more postmodern trappings. There is no indie-rock soundtrack. There is just a show, about revenge. What a relief.
Heath Ledger's Former Hollywood Home For $2.995 Million (currently owned by PASSIONS star Adrian Bellani)
According to Real Estalker, the home is currently owned by soap opera hunk Adrian Bellani, and before Ledger owned it, comedienne Ellen Degeneres held the deed.
Obama’s bridge too far [The Arena]
Soap opera lovers will remember the opening credits of THE EDGE OF NIGHT, which featured a view of downtown Cincinnati’s skyline, and the approach from the Brent Spence Bridge, which carries Interstate 71 and 75 between the Queen City and northern Kentucky. Built in 1962—and named after Kentucky’s beloved 16-term Democrat congressman Brent Spence—the bridge was designed to carry 85,000 vehicles per day, but now carries almost 200,000.
THE EDGE OF NIGHT went off the air at the end of 1984, but an episode of an entirely new soap opera was filmed Thursday afternoon at the venerable bridge; starring none other than President Barack H. Obama, with walk-on parts for Louisville’s Congressman John Yarmuth and Kentucky’s junior senator, Rand Paul.
Turkey-Israel Business Boom Obscured in Erdogan Rant Against Trade Partner
Turkish television star Kivanc Tatlitug made his debut on Israeli screens last month in a sign that commercial ties are surviving the political rift between the two countries.
As Tatlitug’s soap opera, MENEKSE AND HALIL, airs in Israel, business between the two countries is booming. Trade has risen 30 percent since January and sales of Turkish-made cars such as Ford Motor Co.’s Connect vans and Renault SA (RNO)’s Clio doubled in Israel last year. Flowing in the opposite direction, refined fuels and industrial machinery powered a 40 percent jump in Israel exports to Turkey last year.
UL to honor Emmy-winning production designer Joe Stewart at Beaux Arts Ball
He began his career as assistant art director on the daytime soap opera DAYS OF OUR LIVES and has gone on to work on several sitcoms, award shows, special events, game shows, charity telethons, talk shows, specials and more.
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