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...radio in the village office had been turned off the morning that news broke of the power struggle between General Lebed and Yeltsin's security chiefs. No one heard the reports. Villagers who did learn of the Kremlin intrigue seemed to find it less gripping than the Brazilian soap opera they had watched the night before. Igor Dudinsky shrugged off the radio reports as he tucked into a breakfast of cream cheese and fish soup. "The devil knows what that all means," he said...
...staple soap-opera plot line of the '70s: a young woman meets a young man to whom she is inexorably drawn, but to her horror she soon discovers that they are brother and sister. That a contemporary drama (one that is unconnected to Aaron Spelling) could fuel itself with such a story line seems absurd. That it would succeed in doing it so artfully is an unanticipated pleasure...
...persona not built in part on a seemingly real reverence for show business. She is insider and Everygal all at once. For although O'Donnell has purchased Helen Hayes' former New York estate and pals around with Madonna, she can still work up a Nebraska housewife's enthusiasm for soap-opera star Susan Lucci, with whom she passionately discussed All My Children plot lines from more than 10 years ago on her premiere show. Unlike David Letterman, O'Donnell doesn't seem to be forcing a good mood; nor does she exploit guests as foils for her own comedy...
DIED. JOHN BERADINO, 79, actor who played General Hospital's patriarchal Dr. Steve Hardy; in Los Angeles. A fixture on the abc soap for 33 years, Beradino turned to acting after a leg injury ended his baseball career...
...does the case against him rest on the fact that he was caught smoking crack in a Washington hotel. No, the problem is that black Americans can no longer afford to invest their dwindling political capital in elected officials such as Barry, whose erratic performance in public office and soap-operaish private life lend support to the most racist assumptions about black incompetence...