Soapy Lesbians

Lavish weddings on soap operas are commonplace -- beautiful, wealthy characters united amid copious tears, heaps of flowers and exquisite attire.
Monday's ceremony on ABC's "All My Children" was much the same, except for the couple: Eden Riegel's Bianca Montgomery and Tamara Braun's Reese Williams, both wearing designer dresses, united in daytime television's first lesbian wedding.
AMC's expression of devotion and same-sex rights was implemented gracefully in a series with millions of faithful viewers.
Riegel's Bianca --Susan Lucci's Erica Kane's lesbian daughter -- has been breaking new ground for lesbian relationships in Daytime for several years.
CNN report w/video HERE
The View had something to say about it too...see HERE

Economic Soap Opera

The auto-sales slide is hurting even soap-opera star Susan Lucci.
As advertising dries up for soap operas -- particularly from the genre's traditional mainstay, local automotive dealers -- Ms. Lucci, a megastar of the daytime world who has played Erica Kane on "All My Children" since its inception in 1970, is being handed a pay cut.
And she's not the only one...
more HERE