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At Forrester Creations, Ridge goes over a business matter with Justin and Carter, who muses to his boss and friend, “We all know how you like to take things slow.” Justin grins. He heard about the big news that Ridge and Taylor are getting hitched. Carter says she makes him happy but deep down they both know he still loves Brooke.

Expert warned agency as much as 87.5 percent of biomedical research was wasteful. On a steamy summer day inside the lecture auditorium of the storied National Institutes of Health headquarters, Dr. Michael Bracken delivered a stark message to an audience that dedicated its life, and owed its living, to medical research. As much as 87.5% of biomedical research is wasted or inefficient, the respected Yale University epidemiologist declared in a sobering assessment for a federal research agency that spends about $40 billion a year on medical studies. He backed his staggering statistic with these additional stats: 50 out of every...

The Daytime Emmys in 2020 will combine the Outstanding Younger Actress and Outstanding Younger Actor awards into one gender-neutral category, our sister site Variety reports. The National Academy of Television Arts (NATAS) is also expected to announce that coinciding with that change, the new category will include performers from both broadcast dramas and digital series. The Daytime Emmys already keep things gender-neutral with its Outstanding Special Guest Performer category. The young performer categories first debuted at the 1985 Daytime Emmys, at which time they were named the Outstanding Ingenue and Outstanding Young Man awards; Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren, The Young...

If you tuned in to the soap "One Life to Live" this week, you may have noticed there's been a change of character. One character in particular. Actress Patricia Mauceri says she was fired and abruptly replaced for objecting to a gay storyline because of her religious beliefs. Mauceri played the recurring role of Carlotta Vega on "OLTL" for the last 14 years. But when she objected to how the writers wanted her deeply religious character, a Latina mother, to handle a storyline involving homosexuality, she objected. And for that she claims she was fired. Mauceri, 59, a devout Christian,...

ROFL!!! All My Children-- LAST episode today-- What an ending-- My grandma watched this show, so I have had years of exposure.... In high school, my sister and I got hooked. heard the show was ending- so decided to check in this week. Jackson exits with a "Frankly my Dear" moment to Erica-- but the kicker was the Dallas reference. Good ol' JR Chandler has a gun, hiding somewhere. Aims at dad- Eric runs after Jackson. Does she step in front of the line of fire? Gun shot rings out- screen goes black.. LOL!!! Not Who Shot JR-- but who...

The fierce competition between TV channels in Egypt to win audiences and advertising money during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan bombards Muslims with soap operas and historical dramas that distract them from performing their religious traditions. Ramadan began Wednesday as Egyptian TV and independent satellite channels began showing 48 new soap operas and nearly the same number of other programs produced specially for the holy month. Statistics from the Pan Arab Research Center (PARC) show that Ramadan is the advertising high season in Egypt, with $146 million spent during the holy month last year, a remarkable 62% increase over...

(English-language translation) [Venezuelan] President Hugo Chávez affirmed that television in Venezuela features too many programs with capitalist values and urged producers to begin adding content that emphasizes socialist ideals more, including soap operas. Instead of producing programs oriented at consumerism, Chávez said, producers should make "socialist soap operas", among other programs and films imbued with that ideology. "I was in Cuba a short while back, and they produce soap operas there, but not capitalist soap operas, rather with social, socialist content," said Chávez, who was speaking to a film writer and producer during his Sunday radio and television program. Chávez...

Defections by multiple writers on CBS soap The Young and the Restless drew a stern response from Writers Guild of America leadership Tuesday. “They are only prolonging the strike,” WGA East spokeswoman Sherry Goldman said. “They will never be full members of the Writers Guild again.” According to a report Tuesday in Variety, a senior writer on a Y&R informed WGA leadership of plans to cross the picket line and return to work, andothers on the soap, as well as a writer on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, are considering the same action. The writers will be covered under the...

BEIJING--Chinese President Hu Jintao may be an avid viewer of South Korean sudsers, but different interpretations of Chinese history and Korea's founding myths may see the Korea's top skein banned from Chinese screens. Sheer popularity alone has not been enough to stop Korean Wave star Bae Yong-joon's $46 million skein "The Four Guardian Gods of the King" being blacklisted by state media watchdogs over its view of Chinese history. The mega-drama, also referred to as "Taewangsasingi," is by far the biggest TV show in Korean history and has drawn a one-in-five-plus household rating in Korea.But skein is now on China's...

This is the D.C. Chapter's press release for the Freedom Rally Against Terror and Tyranny: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS RALLY WEST FRONT OF CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2003 What: FREEDOM RALLY AGAINST TERROR AND TYRANNY When: SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 25, 2003 - Program runs from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Where: West Front of the Capitol Building at 3rd Street on the Mall Organizer: The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic Purpose: To show support for our men and women in uniform serving abroad and at home fighting the war on terrorism, and to give voice to...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Daytime television viewers -- considered to be among America's most conservative audiences -- will see their first on-screen lesbian kiss next week, ABC television said on Monday. The kiss will take place during the April 22 episode of the Emmy-award winning soap opera "All My Children," making what ABC said would be a first in the world of daytime television. It comes in a scene featuring gay teen character Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel), who came out as a lesbian in 2000, and her new friend Lena (Olga Sosnovska) who "in a moment of truth and true...

<p>Susan Lucci's Erica Kane has battled kidnappers, posed as a nun, been married nine times, and stared down a grizzly bear in her rise from beauty queen to evil executive on the long-running ABC soap opera "All My Children." Now she will face her biggest threat -- Revlon.</p>