Brandon's Buzz

“There’s nothing wrong with being a soap. It’s a perfectly legitimate form. I acted in soap operas in the day, to make my living. I did a lot of those! I remember, I played a cad in one of them. I was trying to seduce a girl… it took us about thirteen weeks in one rumble seat to get anywhere. But it was the same plot as we see on TV now.”

— the estimable Orson Welles, discussing life and art with Merv Griffin mere hours before dying of a heart attack in 1985

“You can actually, on a soap opera, marry eight to ten men and not be considered a tramp at all.“

— the marvelous Kelly Ripa, explaining to David Letterman in 2001 why her oft-wedded “All My Children” character isn’t, ahem, easy