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- From: jpt@telecaster.think.com (James P. Taylor)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: gay-positive soap opera character
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:42:55
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <JPT.92Dec29184255@telecaster.think.com>
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- In-reply-to: kfj@hpuerca.atl.hp.com's message of Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:27:14 GMT
-
- In article <C01CpE.ILJ@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> kfj@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Kirk Johanning) writes:
-
- [lots of stuff deleted.]
-
- Well, IMHO, the only real way to watch a soap is to tape it during the
- week and then on the weekend breeze through all 5 hour-long episodes
- in about 3 1/2 hours.
-
-
- >It's "One Life to Live." I'm pretty impressed too. They did a
-
-
- I remember seeing an interview of Ryan Phillippe (Billy Douglas) on
- Entertainment Tonight a while back, right as he was telling the local
- priest that he was gay, in which he claimed to have had some internal
- struggle about portraying a gay character but that he had basically
- come to terms with it and it would be ok to do this.
-
- That interview basically got me interested in "One Life to Life".
- The fact that they were going to do a gay-positive story of a teen and
- that this teen was absolutley CUTE has made me set my VCR to tape the
- show every day since then.
-
- You could do a favor and sell a condensed tape of just Mr. Phillippe. :-)
-
- I do hope that the writers have a little romance planned for Billy.
- The other character in the above mentioned conversation, Rick Mitchell,
- is also pretty cute. The way that he was looking at Billy makes me
- hopeful that this is just what they are planning on doing ;-)
-
- jim
-