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About Me
- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
- I'm an entertainment editor at MSNBC.com, and have maintained Pop Culture Junk Mail since August, 1999. The New York Times called the site "one of the best places to explore pop culture online," and Entertainment Weekly included it on their Top 100 Web Sites list. If you like weird food, strange products, and 1970s and 1980s nostalgia, PCJM is your home away from home.
I have a brand new BOOK, written with Brian Bellmont. "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s." Buy it online, and follow our retro reminiscing on our GenXtinct blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
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I used to love soaps. Didn't matter which one. Of course I had my favorites, GH being my favorite from the Luke and Laura days. I loved the ones that are no longer on the air Another World, Guiding Light, Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach, The Doctors and The Edge of Night (bye-bye my old friends). I moved overseas but still kept up with Soap Opera Digest magazine.
I don't anymore, for the first time in 15 years I let my subscription last, when I'm home on leave I don't even try to catch a show anymore. They've lost me and I find that really sad. I don't know when it happened, perhaps with the new young "actors," who can't act their way out of a paper bag, or when the plots started being more derivative than original, I think it started with the loss of multiple generations within the shows.
Anyway, it's sad such a long standing form of entertainment is being lost.
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