After ruminating on One Life to Live‘s Kyle and Fish all weekend, I was inspired to hit YouTube to look up all of daytime’s LGBT first liplocks*. I think I got ’em all, but feel free to comment and tell me what else to look for. Daytime’s first same-sex kiss, that of AMC’s Bianca and… Read More What would happen if they kissed?
When I first started seeing ads for IFC’s Bollywood Hero on the sides of NewYork City buses, I admit I cringed. I was instantly thinking of the travesty that was Mike Myers and The Love Guru, expecting something that would set my teeth on edge. But the two parts of this mini-series that I’ve seen… Read More From Hollywood zero to Bollywood hero
In my Weekly blog and my column, I’m always talking about how much I love a slow-building love story and, lately, I’ve been using One Life to Live‘s Kyle and Fish as my example for that trope. In fact, I’ve been giving them a lot of kudos, and even got a little Twitter-happy about actor Brett… Read More So long and thanks for all the Kish
When I was reading Bound By Your Touch on the train, I was amazed by the reaction the cover got. Although there’s not really any clinching, it might as well be a clinch cover, since the central focus is that of a shirtless (and headless, what’s up with THAT?) hero. Guys would look over and… Read More Cover stories
In addition to reading a few brand-new titles recently, I also grabbed the hardback What I Did For Love, by Susan Elizabeth Phillips, from the library. It’s an enjoyable read, with that quality that Phillips has to make you laugh and also make your heart hurt, but I wasn’t as enthralled by it as I… Read More What SEP did for love
A new voice in historical romance proved to be the perfect balm after being burned by my old favorite Mary Jo Putney. Tessa Dare’s Goddess of the Hunt is positively delightful, and I read it cover to cover the day I bought it. Dare gets the tropes of a historical: the society rules, the ton, the… Read More Goddess of the Hunt, by Tessa Dare
Are Y&R’s Mary Jane and Adam in a competition to see who can be the most irredeemable psycho? Actually, wait, Adam, to me, isn’t a psycho. He’s too cold, too calculating about his crimes, to qualify as someone acting purely from unhinged emotion. MJ, however, done lost her damn mind. Between talking to her stuffed… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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