Maurice Benard Celebrates 30 Years of Sonny Corinthos on "GENERAL HOSPITAL"
Maurice Benard
It’s the summer of 1993. Port Charles was about to have an explosion of Corinthos proportions, as Maurice Benard made his debut on, “General Hospital.” Celebrating 30 years on the daytime soap, Benard would soon land to be one of the show’s leading men, and involved in some steamy romances, including with Brenda Barrett, Carly Roberts, and Alexis Davis to name a few. During his…
Later this summer -- August 13, to be exact -- Maurice Benard will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut on General Hospital. His run on the show has been a fruitful one, earning him three Daytime Emmy Awards for his work as mob kingpin Sonny Corinthos. As he approaches the three-decade mark, Benard spoke about the storyline that's meant the most to him during his time on the show.
General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC Daytime, and episodes currently stream on Hulu.
Rachael Ray’s Daytime Talk Show Is Coming To An End After 17 Seasons
Rachael Ray’s Emmy-winning daytime talk show is officially coming to an end after 17 seasons on the air.
Ray, who recently launched a new production company, Free Food Studios, made the decision to end her show to focus on producing “in the kitchen content” under the banner.
“In my more than 20 plus years in television, I have had 17 wonderful seasons working in daytime television,” Ray said in a…
My favorite couple from Pine Valley. Jesse and Angie. I was all in it. 😂 Jesse and Angela "Angie" Hubbard are fictional characters and a supercouple from the ABC and The Online Network daytime drama All My Children. Jesse is portrayed by Darnell Williams and Angie is portrayed by Debbi Morgan.[note 1] Jesse first appeared in Pine Valley in 1981 as the nephew of Dr. Frank Grant, who assumed custody after the death of his sister (Jesse's mother). Angie first appeared in 1982, as the daughter of a well-to-do Pine Valley couple. Shortly after Angie's first appearance on the show, they were paired with one another. Jesse and Angie were best friends to fellow supercouple Greg Nelson and Jenny Gardner. They are daytime television's first African American supercouple, and arguably the two most popular African American characters in soap opera history
Daytime Emmy Award Interviews: Sydney Mikayla of "General Hospital"
Daytime Emmy Award Interviews: Sydney Mikayla of “General Hospital”
Sydney Mikayla
The BUZZ attended the 49th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards this past Friday, June 24th, at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. We had the chance to speak with the biggest and brightest in daytime television.
Sydney Mikayla stopped by to celebrate her nomination for portraying Trina Robinson on, “General Hospital.” We spoke about how what she misses most about the character, and showing…
In 1973, Kermit the Frog and Cookie Monster presented the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Programming to Joseph Barbera for the ABC afterschool special Last of the Curlews, and Shari Lewis for A Picture of Us.
Source:
"The Muppets Present Award to A PICTURE OF US | Emmys Archive (1973)." Television Academy. YouTube. January 25, 2016.
Today's chapters of the Beetle remind me that I still don't have much of a handle on when unmarried men and women were allowed to spend time together in the 1890s and when they weren't.
Dora and Marjorie both show up to Sydney's house in the daytime, unchaperoned, and that seems to be fine. No one mentions it, and you'd think Marjorie's dad would if it was improper.
(the rest under a cut because long)
In earlier chapters, he does object to her waiting in the House of Commons, but it's also clear that he doesn't know where she is or who she's been with a lot of the time, even at night:
‘I thought that you were at the Duchess’?’
‘So I have been, papa; and now I’m here.’
‘Here!’ Old Lindon began to stutter and stammer, and to grow red in the face, as is his wont when at all excited. ‘W—what do you mean by here?—wh—where’s the carriage?’
‘Where should it be, except waiting for me outside,—unless the horses have run away.’
‘I—I—I’ll take you down to it. I—I don’t approve of y—your w—w—waiting in a place like this.’
‘Thank you, papa, but Mr Lessingham is going to take me down.—I shall see you afterwards.—Good-bye.’
It seems like Marjorie basically does what she wants and goes where she wants to, even if her father doesn't always approve. And the very conservative Mr Lindon doesn't seem to be much bothered by this. That is, he's very annoyed that Marjorie doesn't do what he tells her, and describes her acquaintance with Paul Lessingham as "compromising", but the impression I get is that this is much more about an objection to Paul than it is to Marjorie's general behaviour.
I'm trying to square this with other reading about the period. For instance, from an American etiquette book in 1892:
In Europe, where social lines are distinctly drawn, a young woman either belongs "in society" or else she does not. In the former case she is constantly attended by a chaperone.
Dora and Marjorie are clearly both young women "in society" but there's no sign of either of them being chaperoned, including at a ball.
Or there's this, about women in public space:
... suffragist Margery Corbett Ashby (1882-1981) maintained that the ABC (Aerated Bread Company) Teashops in London were 'an enormous move to freedom', providing cheap meals with female staff enabling 'respectable' women to use them.
... which implies that this is a culture that would frown on women going to a café with male waiting staff, even during the day, in a public place.
I don't know quite what to conclude from this. A couple of possibilities:
These etiquette rules were less strictly followed than I thought. Maybe what Dora and Marjorie are doing is the social equivalent of driving at 75mph on the motorway, and taking that etiquette book literally is a bit like reading the Highway Code and assume that that's how everyone drives all the time.
Richard Marsh is implying more radical behaviour by his female characters than was immediately obvious to me as a modern reader. Marjorie is written as a rebellious, independent New Woman, after all, and it might go further than I realised.