1966: Days of our Lives creator Ted Corday died.
1983: Edge of Night's Raven and Sky were thrown in jail.
1993: Salem mourned Carly, who wasn't actually dead, on Days of our Lives.
2009: Y&r's Victor gave Adam his acceptance."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Producer and director Ted Corday died at age 58. Corday moved from Broadway to radio dramas to television directing at The Guiding Light and As the World Turns. In 1965 NBC asked Corday to create three new daytime soap operas leading to the...
1983: Edge of Night's Raven and Sky were thrown in jail.
1993: Salem mourned Carly, who wasn't actually dead, on Days of our Lives.
2009: Y&r's Victor gave Adam his acceptance."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."
― Anselm Kiefer
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: Producer and director Ted Corday died at age 58. Corday moved from Broadway to radio dramas to television directing at The Guiding Light and As the World Turns. In 1965 NBC asked Corday to create three new daytime soap operas leading to the...
- 7/23/2019
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
1966: Days of our Lives' Susan was unhappy to be pregnant.
1994: All My Children's Brooke slapped Adam.
2008: Passions' "Gertrude" was on Ethan's mind at his wedding.
2011: Hollyoaks' Brendan confessed his love for Ste."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Days of our Lives, Dr. Tom Horton (Macdonald Carey) confirmed to Susan Hunter (Denise Alexander) that she was pregnant. A distraught Susan told Tom she was going to give the baby up for adoption the day it was born.
1971: On Another World, Steve Frame (George Reinholt) cleared the air with Mary Matthews (Virginia Dwyer...
1994: All My Children's Brooke slapped Adam.
2008: Passions' "Gertrude" was on Ethan's mind at his wedding.
2011: Hollyoaks' Brendan confessed his love for Ste."The best prophet of the future is the past."
― Lord Byron
"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.
On this date in...
1966: On Days of our Lives, Dr. Tom Horton (Macdonald Carey) confirmed to Susan Hunter (Denise Alexander) that she was pregnant. A distraught Susan told Tom she was going to give the baby up for adoption the day it was born.
1971: On Another World, Steve Frame (George Reinholt) cleared the air with Mary Matthews (Virginia Dwyer...
- 7/29/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
As you attend parties, count down to the new year, and (perhaps) drink a bit too much this December 31st, consider snapping a pic of your surroundings and sending it to Mary Matthews. For the seventh year in a row, the creator known for projects like 39 Second Single and the web's largest slow dramatic clap has returned with Project Midnight, which captures the activities of worldwide collaborators on New Year's Eve.
Each year, Matthews asks contributors to submit photos and videos of their New Year's Eve celebrations. She then compiles these submissions into a video montage that showcases a diverse group of revelers as they all ring in the new year. The previous six entries in this series can be found on the project's official blog. Here, for example, is the 2013 edition
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Each year, Matthews asks contributors to submit photos and videos of their New Year's Eve celebrations. She then compiles these submissions into a video montage that showcases a diverse group of revelers as they all ring in the new year. The previous six entries in this series can be found on the project's official blog. Here, for example, is the 2013 edition
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- 12/30/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
It’s the first New Year in the last 81 of them in which the world will be without Dick Clark when it counts down to midnight. Rockin’ in the New Year won’t be the same without him, but you can find some solace in watching Ryan Seacrest kick off 2013 from New York’s Times Square, giving that special someone what marketing gurus at Procter & Gamble are now trying to market as a #ScopeKiss after the final moments of 2012, or sharing the first few seconds of January 1 with the unknown online masses. Mary Matthews is back with the fifth installment of her Project Midnight. The old school video blogger (behind online video firsts like 39 Second Single), internet collaborator (who orchestrated the web’s largest slow dramatic clap), and Transport Workers Union of America’s Interactive Media Producer/Director (responsible for projects like The Worst Governor Ever Award) wants you to...
- 12/31/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Mary Matthews wants to celebrate the New Year with you. Virtually. For the fourth year running, the old school video blogger (behind online video classics like 39 Second Single), internet collaborator (who orchestrated the web’s largest slow dramatic clap), and Transport Workers Union of America’s Interactive Media Producer/Director (responsible for projects like The Worst Governor Ever Award) wants you to snap a photo of whatever it is you’re doing wherever you are on New Year’s Eve and send it to her at mcmpressATgmailDOTcom by 5Pm Est Sunday, January 1. Matthews will then compile the results into a well-edited, collaborative photo montage with an accompanying song that’s at once both nostalgic and inspiring. The cooperative “virtual Times Square” is called Project Midnight. You can check out the final product from Nye 2009 through 2011 on the official webpage. They’re good. “It began as an organic way to spend...
- 12/28/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
With the release of George Clooney's political drama "The Ides of March," "Extra" collected a list of 20 great quotes for some stellar movies about matters of state.
20 Political Movie Quotes'The Candidate' (1972)
Bill McKay (Robert Redford): [after winning the election] "What do we do now?"
'Syriana' (2005)
Danny Dalton (Tim Blake Nelson): "Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize.
20 Political Movie Quotes'The Candidate' (1972)
Bill McKay (Robert Redford): [after winning the election] "What do we do now?"
'Syriana' (2005)
Danny Dalton (Tim Blake Nelson): "Corruption? Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize.
- 10/9/2011
- Extra
Much like Ze Frank, Mary Matthews is into accessing the collaborative nature of the internet for purposes of art and awesome. While you may be familiar with her early web series highlighting the dating misadventures of a lovelorn New Yorker, an online show with a “Washington Outsider” talking politics, or her appearance at the first CNN/YouTube Debate, Matthew’s projects that seem to resonate the most (at least with me) are the ones where the greater online community is intimately involved. After the success of her New Year’s Eve Project Midnight (where Matthews asked anyone and everyone to send in photos from the exact moment they rung in the new year and then compiled the shots to the tune of a nostalgia-inducing Ben Folds number), Matthews is asking for your help in giving the internet a big round of applause. A storytelling device relegated to the cliched climax of teen movies,...
- 4/27/2009
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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