Tag: Ilene Kristen

Save Our Show! ‘One Life’ Parodies Its Own Demise

Art imitates life as "One Life to Live" does what it does best by poking fun at itself for an upcoming storyline. Beginning next month, the show's once popular soap-within-a-soap, "Fraternity Row," gets canceled due to sagging ratings, leading one loyal Llanview fan to take drastic action to save her soap. The plot mirrors "OLTL's" own predicament, having been dumped by ABC earlier this year.

10 Years of Roxy: Ilene Kristen Reflects on the Past and ‘One Life’s’ Future

Ilene Kristen didn't debut as Roxy Balsom on ABC's "One Life to Live" until November 2001, but the actress did learn she had the job on September 10 of that year and began filming on September 27. Ten years later the actress reflects on the days after learning she had gotten the job, and what she is looking forward to when the soap transitions to Prospect Park in the coming months.

‘One Life’ Prop Leads to Late Night Fodder

For the second time this year, comedienne Chelsea Handler singles out the recently canceled ABC soap saying that "'One Life to Live' is one of the soaps that is headed to an early grave and, unlike many of its characters, it won't be able to come back as its separated at birth evil, retarded twin." And while the joke was an obvious reference to the "Tale of Two Todd's" storyline, it wasn't the only current plot on the soap targeted by Handler on her E! show "Chelsea Lately."

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Ringgold Receives Contract Offer from Prospect Park, Teases ‘One Life to Live 2.0’

The 25th Annual Broadway Fleamarket sponsored by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS took place today and several of daytime's biggest stars were on hand as celebrity guests including stars from "One Life to Live" such as Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning), Andrew Trischitta (Jack Manning), Gina Tognoni (ex-Kelly Cramer), Sean Ringgold (Shaun Evans), Ilene Kristen (Roxy Balsom) and even former cast member Judith Light (ex-Karen Wolek). Also in attendance was former "Guiding…

DeLaria Comes Back to ‘Life’ to Speak with the Dead

(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — Lea DeLaria returns as Llanview's resident physic Madame Delphina just as one young man begins to lose his grip on reality. Even though his fiancé is six feet under, in the coming weeks Rex Balsom (John-Paul Lavoisier) will have several visions of the love of his life from beyond the grave. But are Gigi's (Farah Fath) spiritual visits real or merely a product of his over active imagination? That is what he sets out to prove. However, as Rex grows obsessed with…

Fans Protest ABC’s Decision to Cancel ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’

On Tuesday, May 17, fans of ABC's recently canceled "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" protested outside of the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City as the ABC Television Network presented its 2011-2012 broadcast television schedule to its owned & operated stations, affiliates, advertising partners, and the dozens of press outlets gobbling up everything said during the networks upfront presentation. Joining protesting fans were Colleen Zenk…