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Y&R IS CLEARLY A GUILTY PLEASURE FOR THE MANAGING EDITOR OF "THE EVENING SUN"
Over at "The Evening Sun" today, managing editor Jeff Genung admitted he schedules his lunch breaks to coincide with the daily broadcast of "The Young and the Restless." Who thought a managing editor of a daily newspaper would ever shut off CNN or Fox news? Hmmm....what's up with that? Genung's article starts out sounding like some sort of hot trial unfolding in Chenago Country where "The Evening Sun" is based. Suddenly, he admits the characters he's talking about in the first paragraph of his story are fictional ones from the Y&R. Apparently, a certain judge on the bench in Chenago county has the same name as a Y&R character and that fact--because the judge's name is 'Howie" and it's not typically a soap characters name-- simply made Genung sit up and take notice.
Timing my lunch hour as I often do to coincide with “Y&R” (it’s nice to turn my brain off for an hour mid-day), imagine my surprise this week when Lowell Baldwin and his son Michael started talking about Howie Sullivan. It’s the kind of thing that’ll rouse you from a post-lunch Pringles-induced coma and make you suddenly pay closer attention to the goings on in Genoa City."
Genung's comments about how the networks do the soap character name game thing is also dead on. Here's what he had to say:
Usually, soap characters have names like "Ridge" and "Thorne" or "Skye" or "Greenlee." So it's not every day you hear "Howie Sullivan" (no offense to the real Howie, of course.) I'd read once that soap names are cleared by the networks so as to not to easily correspond to anyone of notoriety in the real world. I gues the "Y&R" execs don't visit "evesun.com."
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