A blast from the past: Tim Burton is remaking Dark Shadows for release in May.
What a perfect Tim Burton subject. I remember watching this at times - when I was home doing the ironing after elementary school. Mostly we were a Gen Hospital & Young & Restless group.
Thanks for the find, Ellice
That takes me back - my two girls (now early 50s) used to rush home from high school to watch Another World. They would yell to me when 'Iris' was on, she wore some lovely clothes.
I get that - we're in the same age group. My job in the afternoons when the housekeeper was there - was the ironing. So, I'd get home, change clothes & head to the guest room/den where the ironing board was. And have a lovely time bonding with Effie (our housekeeper) as we watched the soaps & took care of laundry things. I remember Another World - so true about the clothes. One of my good friends from undergrad school lived across the street from Ericka Kane or Susan Lucci - evidently a very good neighbor. My friend had to force herself to get into that soap. However, Ms. Lucci had great clothes on & off the screen - according to my friend.
Ellice
Oh dear me - that was my first "soap"
C
I can't wait.This show was the only thing that got five kids out of the water in the afternoon and then we'd reenact it. I had many of the paperback novels written by "Marilyn" Ross about the characters of this show. (Real name - Dan Ross. Don't know why someone thought a woman's name would sell better as an author of Gothic fiction.)
Thanks for the update, Sue!
Donna in Virginia
I have similar memories of doing the ironing in front of the soaps in the afternoon. Started with hankies and pillow cases at a young age!
DS was my first "soap," too!
sue
what is it with ironing and soap operas. Or laundry in general. I "sprinkled" the next days' ironing or paired up socks while my grandmother ironed (she did mens' shirts for hire, among other things)
Her main, had to watch soap was General Hospital. There was one that showed right after it that if we weren't done yet we watched.
Some how I can smell hot starch
Hmm, don't know. I wonder if it's the sort of mindless activity of ironing that lets you do the TV thing at the same time. Although, it does help to actually look at the shirts - or anything complicated.
I still do ironing at times. Recently DH's shirts that require it have been going to the laundry 'cause I'm so unreliable. But, I have to keep an ironing board located where it's easily set-up, and there's a TV around.
My DM was a General Hospital fan, so if she was home early from work that was what she watched - so I'd come home from school & hang out with her to watch in my parents' room. I guess she liked to lie down after work. My DM, to quote her "was the only mother who ironed the creases in" when I was in kindergarten. Consequently, either I, DGM (when visiting), or the housekeeper did all the ironing and bonding over the soaps. The soaps were so much better than the current daytime crap like Wendy Williams, etc. Ugh for sure.
Ellice
I actually turned on General Hospital yesterday when I did some ironing. Hadn't watched it in years. I recall coming home from high school my senior year to catch GH. And DM got started watching it only when she ironed and then would catch me up while I was in college. Boy was that a long time ago.
Nancy
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