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Another day, another bests list (ho hum)

As hinted in her Soap Central Live interview on Christmas Eve, Jennifer Biller has come out with her Best and Worsts of 2010 ATWT Two Scoops column. Among highlights, she says, “Reid Oliver. I would say he was the best new character anywhere on TV this year” and Chris and Katie feature prominently (and repeatedly) in the “worsts” category. Soap Central’s other ATWT Two Scooper, Reggie Jackson will post his list next Sunday, so stay tuned. More details after the jump….

Susan Dansby interviews featuring Eric Sheffer Stevens

Susan Dansby has posted three interviews featuring Eric Sheffer Stevens – two with the man himself, and one where he is mentioned as part of her series of eZine articles on getting one’s dream job (the one on auditioning is #2 among performing arts articles on eZine’s website).

By the Pond

Last, I was just watching the September 14th and 15th episodes of the show (Carly and Jack’s wedding) – research for the upcoming chapter of Simple Gifts, when this imagery struck me:

Carly before her wedding

Luke with Reid’s ashes

Miscellaneous Updates

And just to remind us that LuRe may be off our screens, but not forgotten, AfterElton.com’s snicks posted an update in last week’s "Briefs” column promoting Kate Davies’s terrific interview:

Kate Davies has a fun four-part interview with Eric Sheffer Stevens about his life after As The World Turns, and he reveals how surprised he was by the popularity of the late, lamented Dr. Reid Oliver.

Details on the Jennifer Biller Two Scoops column and Susan Dansby interviews to follow after the jump, along with musings prompted by the pond-side imagery to follow the jump…

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First of all, Hayley has come out with a Christmas edition of the Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga. Let’s just say that Luke’s cookies are at risk (the ones for Santa, that is)!

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In the meantime, I’m starting to think it will be easier to make a list of the year-end soap “bests lists” that LuRe DON’T make then the ones where they’re prominently featured!

Beginning with SoapCentral.com.  In their December 10th edition of Soap Central Live (a web radio broadcast) CBS Soaps In Depth Editor, Richard Simms names Reid’s death as the worst storyline of the year, and Van Hansis as his pick for ATWT Emmy gold.

In their year-end recap edition on December 24th featuring their ATWT Two Scoops columnists (along with all the other shows), Jennifer Biller names Reid Oliver coming to Oakdale as the best storyline (and Reid Oliver as “the best new character in daytime, period”) while Reggie Jackson singles out ‘Reid’s death and Luke’s unhappy ending as the worst storyline.

AfterElton.com’s snicks puts together his tongue-in-cheek “memoriam” to gay characters lost from television’s landscape (as he puts it, “Whether from cancellation, ratings scapegoating, assassination, or being unable to press that damn release button on the seat belt”), and #1, 2, and 3 on the list are ATWT’s trifecta of Luke, Noah, and Reid (in that order).

BlogTalkRadio’s Ryan Holmes has yet another interesting interview coming up – this time with Michael Fairman who will deliver his year-end bests and worsts lists on-air live Tuesday December 28th at 9PM EST/6PM PST. (917) 388-4131 to call in.

Last, in a sobering thought for Van and Eric. I had thought they had an uphill battle getting a Best Supporting Emmy pre-nom between the two of them and Trent Dawson, who did a fantastic job showing that Henry is not just Katie’s goofball sidekick. But TV Guide’s Michael Logan makes an even more sentimental suggestion in his year-end list:

Best Supporting Actor and Actress: As the World Turns‘ Don Hastings and Kathryn Hays (Bob and Kim)

Watching these timeless vets send ATWT off the air with class and grace made the loss of a great soap so much more bearable. Hastings played the wise, stalwart, hopelessly busy chief of staff. Hays was his devoted yet frustrated wife. No showboating here. This was pure, unfussy acting, straight from the heart. Man, how I miss them already! When ATWT concluded its run, we didn’t just lose two fine stars in Hastings and Hays — we lost two members of a rare, vanishing breed of east coast actor who proudly spent their lives in daytime drama. It’s what they knew. It’s all they wanted. They didn’t need to go be big shots in prime time to prove their worth. We were enough for them, and that’s why we loved them so damn much. And it was a very long love affair indeed! Hastings spent 50 years in Oakdale, Hays was there for 38. The fact that neither of them was ever nominated for an Emmy during that time is a crime of epic proportion.

This is going to be a crowded category!

More from snicks and transcripts of the relevant Soap Central Live passages follow below. In the meantime, snicks reader dkellergrl2001 reminds us (I think snicks gets credit for originating this gem):

And you know, better to have love and lost, than to have never been with anyone but Noah.

Merry Christmas (or happy December 25th if you don’t celebrate any of the holidays), fellow Lurians! More Christmas goodies to come over the next week, so stay tuned….

-LL

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A few more year-end bests:

• Soaps.com: Best character: Reid Oliver, Worst Storyline: duh.
• Greg in Hollywood: Soap Star of the Year: ESS.
• AfterElton.com Final Power Rankings: #5 Reid, #6 Luke; #6 best show: ATWT

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Sorry it’s been so long since the last update, but my whole family has been down with a nasty cold/flu thing for the last week.  Add RL and international travel on top of that and you have one tired blogger.

But this is news I couldn’t pass up: this week’s TV Guide Canada poll asks: Which couple made 2010 the most memorable?  The choices:

Luke and Reid, ‘World Turns’ – 3%
Billy and Victoria, ‘Y&R’ – 30%
Maggie and Victor, ‘Days’ – 0%
Dante and Lulu, ‘GH’ – 54%
Kyle and Fish, ‘One Life’ – 0%
Bo and Carly, ‘Days’ – 10%
Ani and Lara, ‘Venice’ – 2%
Brenda and Sonny, ‘GH’ – 0%
Brooke and Oliver, ‘B&B’ – 0%
Jason and Brenda, ‘GH’ – 1%
Total Votes 3899

Aw, c’mon! We can do better than that!

In the meantime, a few quickies:

• For anyone interested in my campaign postcards, that link had been broken forever and was finally fixed.
• On her blog, Bananas Vs the World, Hayley (mastermind behind the Reid Oliver Cartoon Saga), has posted the 2010 Soap Train Crash Awards that pits British soaps Emmerdale, Coronation Street, AND Eastenders versus, well, you know, ATWT. 😛
• Nelson Branco included an update on Eric Sheffer Stevens’s whereabouts in his November 26th Suds Report. No news, but confirmation of a lot of previously mentioned projects.

Eric Sheffer Stevens was touched that TVGuide.ca named him one of our Hottest Newcomers this past Wednesday and touched base with Suds. So what’s the talented thespian up to these days? Along with guest stints on shows like The Big C, Sheffer Stevens has been a very busy boy. “Check out this link for the film I shot in September. I also did a guest spot for Body of Proof, an ABC midseason replacement, and then shot The Silent House, the next film from the couple that did the film Open Water about the two divers that get left behind. I just finished that last week. We’ll see what happens with that. It was a blast to shoot. Thanks for all the support.”

Plus, the year-end attention to the actors and storyline continues. Eric has been getting a lot of attention as a standout newcomer. Van got a TON of attention at the end of ATWT for his stellar work the last week of the show – hope he doesn’t get forgotten in the year-end accolades just because he’s no longer “new”!

The laundry list of good news continues below the jump…

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Here’s the link to download the podcast version from iTunes.

Or you can listen on this embedded player:

A complete pseudo transcript (unedited, full of typos, and created listening through only once) follows.

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