
Natalie Y. Moore
Columnist at Chicago Sun-Times
south side lois lane. audio maker. author. playwright. professor. columnist.
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2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Natalie Y. Moore
Pope Leo XIV and I are both descendants of the Great Migration. Our grandparents journeyed to Chicago from the South as part of a wave of Black families seeking a better life in the North. His mother’s Creole people hailed from Louisiana. Mine moved from Tennessee and Georgia. We’re both native South Siders. This does not mean the pontiff can come to the mythical cookout that Black folks fervently pass out invitations to like a deck of Spades cards for any white person deemed cool.
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2 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Natalie Y. Moore
A Chicago woman, Irna Phillips, birthed the daytime serial — and a Chicago woman, Michele Val Jean, is ushering in new interest in the genre. Val Jean has written for several shows, including Generations, Santa Barbara, General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful. Now, she’s the creative force driving Beyond the Gates, the newest American soap, which debuted on CBS in February.
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3 weeks ago |
wbez.org | Natalie Y. Moore
Go behind the scenes at Days of Our Lives in Burbank, California. Hear from actors, set designers and wardrobe as we pull back the curtain on how soaps manage to come on five days a week, every week — no reruns. Plus, we take you back to 1994, when Marlena was possessed by the devil!• None Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History• None The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era , edited by Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik and C.
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1 month ago |
wbez.org | Natalie Y. Moore
Without soaps, we wouldn’t have melodramas or reality shows. Without soaps, we wouldn’t have many of the TV tropes and shows we love to stream and binge-watch. Cliffhangers, serials, vixens — in television storytelling, all come from soaps. Network television would not exist if not for the financial success of soap operas, according to Elana Levine, author of Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History. During the 1970s, Levine said soaps brought in 75% of the networks’ revenue.
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1 month ago |
wbez.org | Natalie Y. Moore
Before the mainstreaming of Ellen and the hit show Will and Grace, soaps did their best to bring tenderness to LGBTQ+ storylines. That’s the nature of the form: It gives room for anyone and everyone to be complex, fleshed out, loved and hated all at once. From supporting roles to legacy characters to complex depictions in their full humanity, from respectability politics to sometimes making missteps, soaps have found ways to evolve their depictions of queer life.
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