At one point, everybody in the country was watching As The World Turns . It became a huge part of what people thought of as soaps. |
Irna wanted her actresses to stay in character all the time -- she wouldn't even call them by their real names, just their character names. And she didn't want them playing other roles while they were on As The World Turns . |
Nobody's ever dead unless you see them die in a hospital, they're pronounced dead, and then maybe their body is shot a couple of times in the coffin. |