TV Guide is doing a big article on the Luke/Noah kissing issue this week, written by Micheal Logan. I don't think the issue has hit newsstands yet (or my mailbox), but Out In Hollywood has a bit about the upcoming article.
http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/03/cbs_daytime_honcho_on_luke_and.html
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on Tue, 2008-03-25 14:06.
If the link is reliable, I've lost ALL respect for Michael Logan
While I still need to see the full article in print to give Logan the benefit of the doubt, he really needs to make up his mind about how he feels about Nuke as every second he seems to say something different. Good old-fashioned story telling or a double standard.
In an interview posted on TVGuide.com on March 19, Logan interviews Martha Byrne, who will soon stop playing Luke Snyder's mom as she's become the latest casualty of a show that is in obvious crisis. Logan has always been the ultimate soap fan and could be counted for saying what few would dare say.
http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Soaps-News/Martha-Byrne-Exiting/800035852
If you follow the link, you can see that he's not happy about what has happened to Byrne at the hands of Chris Goutman, but half way down the interview I saw the following Nuke reference and my jaw dropped:
TVGuide.com: That's why I have to laugh at all this outrage over Luke and Noah. Keeping those two apart is good, old-school, Doug Marland storytelling — whether or not it's being done to shut up the anti-gay Christian groups.
Byrne: I think Doug took seven months before he let Lily and Holden have their first kiss!
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Guillermo Serritiello would ask Logan: Has he been laughing at all this outrage? If so, he should own it, but either he was not being truthful when he interviewed Byrne, or is about to dump a truck-load of manure with this upcoming article. Again, I want to see it before I give my definite assessment, but if he comes out barking about a double standard (which I of course agree there is) he may be no different than the executives at P&G/CBS who send mixed messages to try to keep everyone happy.
It seems like not even a writer who has spent a career writing about this genre can be counted on anymore say what he really thinks. I know what I think and it's pretty consistent no matter who I speak to. Sometimes a great mind or hearing a different perspective might change how I view something, but it's disclosed.
Again Logan..... Good old fashioned story telling or not? You can't have it both ways.
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