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As The World Turns Ends After 54 Years

With the cancellation of As the World Turns, a former soap-opera magazine editor dishes on daytime’s dwindling, insular world—and the daily insults soap actors face.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

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