On April 29, 2005, daytime lost, if not its greatest talent, certainly one of them. Few and far between are the soap writers who know as well as the late, great William J. Bell did how to get an ...

Seriously — would you even need two hands to count the writers who were his equal, the few geniuses of the genre who shared his gift for crafting compelling storylines that sprang from character ...

"They were also always around. Like, even though they were both fully working parents, my father typed in our kitchen dining room area," she said Despite growing up on soap opera sets — and being ...