McKenzie Westmore looks back on the 2008 cancellation of NBC's "Passions" as the start of daytime dramas fading.
Now the host of Syfy's Wednesday special-effects-makeup competition "Face Off" -- in tribute to her legendary family of Hollywood makeup artists -- the actress who was the soap world's Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald tells Zap2it, "We started to see the decline, even on 'Passions,' as budgets started to get cut and things dissipated. It started toward the end of when we were going off the air, and to see it as it continued was heartbreaking to me.
"I even bounced over to 'All My Children' for a little bit, when it was still based in New York. I went over and did about six months there, and it was so sad to me to see them just go down in flames. I started on a soap opera at 20 years old with a three-year contract,...
Now the host of Syfy's Wednesday special-effects-makeup competition "Face Off" -- in tribute to her legendary family of Hollywood makeup artists -- the actress who was the soap world's Sheridan Crane Lopez-Fitzgerald tells Zap2it, "We started to see the decline, even on 'Passions,' as budgets started to get cut and things dissipated. It started toward the end of when we were going off the air, and to see it as it continued was heartbreaking to me.
"I even bounced over to 'All My Children' for a little bit, when it was still based in New York. I went over and did about six months there, and it was so sad to me to see them just go down in flames. I started on a soap opera at 20 years old with a three-year contract,...
- 2/7/2012
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