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1976: Ryan's Hope's Jack was annoyed with Little John.

1981: The Edge of Night's Nadine called out her daughter, Raven.

1981: General Hospital's Heather defended herself to Burt.

2004: As the World Turns' Barbara was determined to get her son."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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1966: On Dark Shadows, Joe Haskell (Joel Crothers) told Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) about David Collins' crystal ball's prediction. Burke Devline (Mitchell Ryan) investigated Bill Malloys' disappearance, certain that he had incriminating evidence against Roger Collins and Sam Evans (David Ford). Sam...

1976: Ryan's Hope's Jack was annoyed with Little John.

1981: The Edge of Night's Nadine called out her daughter, Raven.

1981: General Hospital's Heather defended herself to Burt.

2004: As the World Turns' Barbara was determined to get her son."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"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.

On this date in...

1966: On Dark Shadows, Joe Haskell (Joel Crothers) told Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) about David Collins' crystal ball's prediction. Burke Devline (Mitchell Ryan) investigated Bill Malloys' disappearance, certain that he had incriminating evidence against Roger Collins and Sam Evans (David Ford). Sam believed everyone in the entire town was headed towards death.

There are many web series that examine the anxieties of life in the big city, but few shows handle that topic with as much skill as The So-So You Don't Know. Marlene Rhein's examination of urban-dwelling angst, as seen through a series of therapy sessions, is a good-looking piece of work that gives its diverse and varied characters plenty of room to explore their frustrations.

Each episode of So-So is centered around a different character, though all of the show's featured figures have one think in common: They've been lured into a therapist's office by the promise of a reduced rate, courtesy of a Groupon deal. This format is reminiscent of High Maintenance, which Rhein cited as one of her influences. She also appears in the first episode, while the second showcases the talents of Sachi Parker, the daughter of legendary actress Shirley MacLaine.

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Want a life of happiness? Don't do it alone - but certainly don't get too tied down, says Shirley MacLaine. The Downton Abbey star, who has been famously candid about her love life - which has included a handful of affairs - says that the only way to ensure marital success is to take an open approach to monogamy. Detailing her relationship with film producer Steve Parker, MacLaine tells People and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle during a Sirius Xm town hall that she and her husband of 28 years were friends more than lovers. "I guess you would say...

Want a life of happiness? Don't do it alone - but certainly don't get too tied down, says Shirley MacLaine. The Downton Abbey star, who has been famously candid about her love life - which has included a handful of affairs - says that the only way to ensure marital success is to take an open approach to monogamy. Detailing her relationship with film producer Steve Parker, MacLaine tells People and Entertainment Weekly Editorial Director Jess Cagle during a Sirius Xm town hall that she and her husband of 28 years were friends more than lovers. "I guess you would say...

Seeing her mom, Shirley MacLaine, play a saucy septuagenarian on Downton Abbey, Sachi Parker couldn't help but smile. "She was true to form," Parker says of MacLaine, 78, whose zinger-slinging turn as Lady Grantham's American mom shook up the big house this season. "It certainly hit home." Hearing about Parker's relationship with MacLaine makes it easy to understand why. Raised mostly by her dad, Parker grew up feeling distanced from her movie-star mother. She yearned for MacLaine's attention - so much so that when Parker, 56, also an actress, became a mom herself (to Frank Jr., 16, and Arin,...

London, Feb 3: Us actress Shirley Maclaine's daughter Sachi Parker has showed another side of her mother in a tell-all book.

In a shocking memoir 'Lucky Me: My Life With - And Without - My Mom' released this weekend, Parker said that the now 78-year-old actress took little interest in her life until she was 17, the Daily Mail reported.

Then, she and her boyfriend, Brad, were invited to the Maclaine's California beachfront flat where she claims that she met her mother's sex therapist friends, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen.

She wrote that Phyllis told Maclaine that it would be a fabulous opportunity for Parker to have her first.