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In honor of Guiding Light's cancellation

Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (which, really, you should be reading every day at this point) comes this take on soap operas.

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When I wanted to become an actor, I remember being told that soap opera acting was pretty much the dregs of the community. But I don’t totally get why. Who wouldn’t want to have to pretend to be a normal human being in absurd situations, like finding out your mom was actually a velociraptor or opening your bedroom door to find your girlfriend has amnesia and thinks she’s married to a zombie? That’s pretty much Shakespearean, if Shakespeare were a room full of drunk monkeys with typewriters missing the “E” key.

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  • Heidi Palmer
    April 23, 2009
    #1

    I just found this blog randomly, but I will take this opportunity to say that Guiding Light is not like other soap operas–its quality as a show is unrivaled on both daytime and primetime.

    To fans looking for a way to save Guiding Light, the biggest online petition is:

    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-guiding-light-on-air

    and the toll-free# to the GL offices is: 1-866-695-1859.

    There are lots of other places to write and numbers to call–keep looking.

    Thanks!

  • nina
    May 11, 2009
    #2

    Guiding Light is the Grand-damme of TV shows, to lose the show that went from radio to TV is losing a piece of living history. It is a classy soap opera, with genuinely likeable characters due to its’ fine actors. It would be a great loss, and if CBS does not keep them, I hope another station picks them up.

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