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1979: Eon's "Mrs. Corey" kept an eye on Deborah's condition.

1979: Atwt's Lisa & Bob danced while Bennett fumed.

1984: Days' Salem mourned Roman at his wake.

1998: Gh's Alan found Tammy next to his dead drug dealer."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1941: On The Story of Mary Marlin, Davey's intended destination was exposed further. An NBC News bulletin, one of the first known casualty reports to come from Pearl Harbor, arrived just before the day's episode of this popular radio soap opera.

1941: On Vic & Sade,...

Set Video from Road Raiders has been released. Cirio H. Santiago‘s Road Raiders (2011) stars Michael Madsen, Riza Santos, Alvin Anson, Beau Ballinger, and Kevin Stapleton. Road Raiders‘ plot synopsis: “After some type of world devastation, an amazon tribe of women led by three sisters is guarding an oasis of water which mercenaries are searching the whole world for, following a legend about a place where water still flows.” The song playing in the first Road Raiders set footage clip is Avril Lavigne‘s “Alice”. Cirio H. Santiago is now deceased and “Roger Corman put Jim Wynorski in to finish principal photography.”

The Amazonian tribe will be played by two Playboy Playmates (one is Monica Leigh, Playboy Playmate for March 2006) and our very own, former Viva Hot Babe and now Gma Artist Center star Jen Rosendahl.

I hope the Amazons in Road Raiders are as aggressive as they were in...

On February 24th, famed producer Roger Corman and the director of the upcoming Wrong Turn 3 bring to life an ancient creature when Anchor Bay Entertainment unleashes Cyclops on DVD February 24, 2009. Eric Roberts, Kevin Stapleton, Frida Farrell and Craig Archibald star and this release promises graphic scenes not seen during its original Sci-Fi Channel broadcast. Here's a synopsis: The Roman Empire is at its zenith. A time of mighty gladiators, lusty women, abundant wealth . and a ferocious one-eyed monster that slaughters those foolish enough to enter his forest domain. The corrupt Emperor Tiberius has a plan to please the bloodlust of the people: capture the creature and unleash him in the arena against his condemned slaves, including wrongfully imprisoned General Marcus...

The pairing of Roger Corman, the 20th century’s king of B-moviemeisters, and the Sci Fi Channel, which doles out cubes of processed cheese week after week, should occur far more often. Not necessarily because their collaborations are that noteworthy, but rather because it seems predestined that these two work together.

The man responsible for The Saga Of The Viking Women And Their Voyage To The Waters Of The Great Sea Serpent (credited here as producer alongside his wife Julie) and the network that churned out S.S. Doomtrooper? They were made for each other, regardless of the results.

And what of these results? The most recent, Cyclops, is about as mixed a bag as they come. With shockingly impressive sets (for this network) and a well-rounded cast, this ancient-Rome-set epic should have been far better than it is—but still earns points for being less mediocre than many of...