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Tainted Dreams
''Tainted Dreams'' is a soap opera that premiered on YouTube on December 30, 2013 and later moved exclusively to Amazon and Amazon Prime. The series debuted on Popstar! TV and the Popstar! App on September 23, 2019. Created by Sonia Blangiardo, it is a "soap-within-a-soap" which follows the backstage drama of the fictional soap opera ''Painted Dreams''. ''Tainted Dreams'' was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series in 2014, and one for Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2017. Kelley Menighan Hensley, Michael Lowry, Natalia Livingston, and Anthony Wilkinson were also nominated for Daytime Emmys in 2017 for their performances. Cast * Alicia Minshew as Angelica Caruso * Michael Lowry as Jordan Bradford * Walt Willey as Gregory Ashford * Kelley Menighan Hensley as Veronica Ashford * Terri Ivens as Kassandra Bently * Austin Peck as Max Hillstone * Grant Aleksander as Adam Clark * Natalia Livingston as Liza Park * Ilene Kristen as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Blangiardo
Sonia Blangiardo (born April 18, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American television soap opera director and producer. She is also the creator and director of the web series '' Tainted Dreams'', which debuted on YouTube in December 2013. Positions held ''All My Children'' * Associate Producer (Late 1990s - 2000) * Supervising Producer (April 2013 – August 2013) ''One Life to Live'' * Coordinating Producer (2000 - 2002) * Producer (2010 - 2012) ''As the World Turns'' * Director (July 15, 2004 - September 17, 2010) Days of Our Lives *Director (2015–present) '' Tainted Dreams'' (web series) * Creator, director, writer, actor (2013) ''Winterthorne'' (web series) * Director (2015) '' Pride: The Series'' (web series) * Consulting Producer (2016) Awards and nominations ;Daytime Emmy Award * Win, 2017, Directing, "Days Of Our Lives" * Win, 2007, Directing, ''As the World Turns'' * Win, 2002, Drama Series, ''One Life to Live'' * Nomination, 2014, Daytime Emmy Award for Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DePaiva
James Paul DePaiva (born October 8, 1957) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Max Holden on the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' (1987 to 1990, 1991 to 2003, returning briefly in 2007). Early life DePaiva was born in Hayward, California, but he was raised in Livermore. He is related to a Central Park designer and also former U.S. President Andrew Johnson. DePaiva's father was a jazz musician. He has said that he was raised in a very strict household. In his early teens, he struggled with his weight and became insecure. DePaiva started acting in school plays when he was in the seventh grade. Instead of pursuing it, he focused on music. He began playing the electric bass professionally at the age of fifteen. DePaiva played punk rock, Latin rock, and country-western in several bands, including Livewire. He got a job at a music store and became an apprentice, eventually making plans to buy the store. When DePaiva was twenty two, his father died from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Real Housewives Of New Jersey
''The Real Housewives of New Jersey'', abbreviated ''RHONJ'', is an American reality television series that premiered on May 12, 2009, on Bravo. Developed as the fourth installment of ''The Real Housewives'' franchise, it has aired fourteen seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in the state of New Jersey, primarily in North Jersey. The cast of the recent fourteenth season consists of Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda, with former housewife Jackie Goldschneider and Jennifer Fessler serving as friends of the housewives. Previously featured cast members include original housewives Dina Cantin, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo and Danielle Staub; and subsequent housewives Kathy Wakile, Teresa Aprea, Amber Marchese, Nicole Napolitano and Siggy Flicker. The success of the show has resulted in the spin-offs '' Boys to Manzo'', '' Manzo'd with Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bravo (American TV Network)
Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. Since the 2000s, its has focused heavily on reality series targeted at 25-to-54-year-old women and the LGBTQ community at large. Its former sister channels are Nickelodeon and IFC, which are currently owned by Paramount Global and AMC Networks, respectively. , Bravo is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 95,000,000 households. History Launch and early programming Bravo originally launched as a commercial-free premium channel on December 8, 1980. It was originally co-owned by Cablevision's Rainbow Media division and Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment; the channel claimed to be "the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On-Air On-Soaps
There are multiple media outlets which focus primarily on television soap operas and telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ...s. These publications and websites feature news, cast and crew interviews, plot summaries and previews, editorials and reviews, TV listings and video previews related to the genre. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Soap opera media outlets English-language mass media Lists of websites Review websites Soap opera lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebuzz
Celebuzz is an entertainment website launched in June 2008 that features breaking TV, movie, and entertainment news. Headquartered in Hollywood, CA, Celebuzz is known for featuring exclusive blogs written by A-list celebrities, particularly members of the Kardashian family ( Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kendall, and Kylie). Other notable bloggers include Whitney Port, Nick Cannon and Holly Madison. Launched in June 2008, Celebuzz was the flagship property of Buzz Media (formerly known as Buzznet). Celebuzz's content is produced entirely by an in-house editorial team in Los Angeles and New York City led by Editor-in-Chief Dylan Howard, who joined the site in March 2012 after previously serving as Senior Executive Editor at Radar Online. In Fall 2012, Buzz Media and Celebuzz unveiled a studio at the Buzz Media headquarters in Hollywood. Buzz Media was later renamed SpinMedia. Kelly Lynch became Editor-in-Chief of Celebuzz in April 2013. In 2016, SpinMedia closed. Celebuzz, The Frisky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via Prospect Park (production company), Prospect Park from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. ''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying the series' protagonist Victoria Lord in March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Hinsey
''Soap Opera Digest'' was a weekly magazine covering American daytime soap operas. It featured onscreen and offscreen news about the series, interviews with and articles about performers, storyline summaries and analysis, and related promotional information. Founded in 1975, the magazine historically included certain prime time soap operas in its coverage as well. History ''Soap Opera Digest'' debuted in November 1975, co-founded by Angela Shapiro and Jerome Shapiro and founding Editor Ruth J Gordon and featuring actors John Aniston, Ron Tomme, Audrey Peters, Birgitta Tolksdorf, Jerry Lacy, and Tudi Wiggins of ''Love of Life'' on its first cover. In the early 1990s, the magazine had up to 1.4 million subscribers. In 1980, Network Publishing Corporation purchased the magazine from Shapiro, who went on to found ''Soap Opera Update''. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought the magazine from Gerry M. Ritterman in 1989. Ritterman had owned ''Soap Opera Digest'' for three years be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Marie Varon
Lisa Marie Varon (née Sole; born February 10, 1971) is an American retired professional wrestler, fitness competitor and bodybuilder. She is signed to WWE under a legends contract, under the ring name Victoria. She is also known for her tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, under the ring name Tara. Varon held both companies women's championships on many occasions. Varon began competing in fitness competitions and won ESPN2's ''Fitness America Series'' in 1997. In 1999, she placed second at a fitness event in New York City to earn her International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) Professional Fitness Card. Varon met World Wrestling Federation (WWF) performer Chyna, who encouraged her to become a professional wrestler. She trained in the WWF's developmental territories for three years before moving to the main roster to compete full-time under the ring name Victoria. Varon had her first television appearance at WrestleMania 2000, where she portrayed one of The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonja Walker
Tonja Walker is an American actress and singer, who is also a former beauty pageant titleholder who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. She is known for her role as Alex Olanov on ''One Life to Live'' and for her role as Olivia St. John on ''General Hospital''. Career Walker's first acting role was in ''Liar's Moon'' with Matt Dillon. Walker's work has been primarily as a performer on daytime dramas. Her first daytime role was on the television serial '' Capitol''. She played Lizbeth Bachman, a sophisticated heiress torn between playboy Jordy Clegg and handicapped doctor Thomas McCandless. Walker played the role from the show's launch until she left in 1984. She returned to daytime as mob princess Olivia St. John on ''General Hospital'' from 1988 to 1990, playing a villainess complicating the lives of Duke Lavery and his family. Walker would make a brief return to this role in 2017. Walker was then cast as Alex Olanov Hesser Buchanan Buchanan on ''One Life to Live''. Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larkin Malloy
Thomas Larkin Malloy (September 24, 1954 – September 29, 2016) was an American soap opera actor, voice-over artist and acting teacher. Early life Malloy was born in New York City, the third child of John and Theresa (née Larkin) Malloy, both Irish immigrants. He had one older brother, Patrick Malloy, and one older sister, Maureen Malloy. Career Malloy began his acting career in 1974 while he attended Iona College and acted in Off-Off-Broadway plays. His first major television role was wealthy playboy Schuyler Whitney (and his impostor) on the ABC daytime soap opera ''The Edge of Night'' from 1980 to 1984. Malloy next played businessman Kyle Sampson opposite Kim Zimmer on the CBS soap ''Guiding Light'' from 1984 to 1987. His longest running role was Travis Montgomery, opposite Susan Lucci, on the ABC soap ''All My Children'', which he played on and off from 1987 to 2001. While on ''The Edge of Night'', Malloy was hit by a car on Park Avenue Park Avenue is a boul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Purdee
Nathan Purdee (born August 6, 1950 in Tampa, Florida) is an American actor, best known for his roles in popular soap operas. __TOC__ Career Purdee rose to prominence as mobster-turned-private investigator Nathan Hastings on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'', a role he portrayed from 1984 to 1992. His involvement on ''Y&R'' (he was one of only two black cast members on the show in the late 1980s) paved the way for more African American additions to the cast. In this period, while appearing on Santa Barbara, Purdee performed the first interracial kiss on American daytime television. He left ''Y&R'' in December 1991 and moved to New York in January 1992 to play the role of District Attorney Hank Gannon on the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'', a role he would portray until 2003. Between ''Y&R'' and ''OLTL'', he portrayed Youngblood "Superfly" Priest in ''The Return of Superfly'', the third and final installment in the classic '' Super Fly'' trilogy. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
