They're Happy To Be Hooked
By Agnes Eckhardt Nixon
Chief writer of the current serial Another World and creator of One Life To Live, which starts July 15
New York Times
July 7, 1968
Time after tedious time, when critics suffer an aridity of fresh, inventive phrases with which to denigrate a film, play or book, they fall back on "soap opera"; it has become the classic cliché of derogation.
But the critic cannot be singly criticized when his attitude is shared by a good part of the television industry itself. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for example, did not simply fail to give an Emmy to any soap opera: by having no award category for them, it failed to recognize their existence.
Of course, after viewing the recent fiasco of the Emmy awards, it may well be considered a mark of distinction to have been ignored by this group.
By Agnes Eckhardt Nixon
Chief writer of the current serial Another World and creator of One Life To Live, which starts July 15
New York Times
July 7, 1968
Time after tedious time, when critics suffer an aridity of fresh, inventive phrases with which to denigrate a film, play or book, they fall back on "soap opera"; it has become the classic cliché of derogation.
But the critic cannot be singly criticized when his attitude is shared by a good part of the television industry itself. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for example, did not simply fail to give an Emmy to any soap opera: by having no award category for them, it failed to recognize their existence.
Of course, after viewing the recent fiasco of the Emmy awards, it may well be considered a mark of distinction to have been ignored by this group.
- 7/15/2011
- by Roger Newcomb (We Love Soaps)
- We Love Soaps
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