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Date Posted: 14:46:22 01/07/03 Tue
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Soap Opera 'All My Children' Gets Dose of Reality
- Reuters
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Which part of the following soap opera story is true?
A: Super vixen Erica Kane, played by actress Susan Lucci, is impregnated by a rapist and ends up giving the illegitimate daughter up for adoption.
B: The daughter, Kendall, grows up to become her mother's business adversary.
Or C: Kendall launches a nationwide contest to find America's sexiest men in a bid to promote her rival cosmetics company, Fusion, and put mom out of business.
If you guessed C., you are correct.
In a novel blend of TV formats that could hardly be further apart, ABC plans to inject a bit of "reality" -- in this case a search for five of America's sexist men -- into the fantasy world of its popular soap opera "All My Children."
Executives at the Walt Disney Co.-owned network are billing it as an unprecedented merging of unscripted action within the context of a daytime TV drama.
"Searching for America's sexiest guy is certainly a fantasy that fits into the emotional fantasy fulfillment of soap operas," ABC Daytime president Brian Frons told Reuters. "There is an undiscovered link between these two programming forms."
The sexy-guys contest will be introduced as a marketing campaign dreamed up by the show's lead characters, Kendall Hart (Alicia Minshew) and her partner, Greenlee Smythe (Rebecca Budig), to promote their cosmetics company.
VIDEOTAPES AND PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED
In the convoluted story line typical of soaps, Kendall is the illegitimate daughter of Lucci's character and has emerged as her mother's nemesis. Kendall and Greenlee will launch their quest for eligible unknowns this spring, bringing real-life camera crews to key cities around the country for auditions of would-be TV hunks.
At the same time, on-air promotions for "All My Children" will urge viewers to submit videotapes and photographs of sexy men they believe should enter the contest. The field of entries chosen by audition and from audience submissions will be narrowed to 25 finalists, and viewers will choose five winners over a five-week period, casting votes either by cellular telephone messaging or via ABC's Internet site, www.abc.com.
The five winners will then return to "All My Children" in September.
Frons said the idea of mixing "reality TV" with daytime drama grew out of his six-year experience as a television executive in Europe, where TV shows like "Big Brother" gained prominence before coming to America.
But he said the sexy-guy search developed for "All My Children" would differ in tone from a similar concept ABC is planning as a stand-alone reality series for its prime-time lineup this year, "Are You Hot?" which will be a search for sexy men and women.
He said the "All My Children" contest would focus less of physical attributes and more on other traits that women "really" find sexy, like sense of humor and emotional sensitivity.
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