Judges set

The judging panel for the 100 Sexiest Soap Hunks of All Time feature has been set...no more people will be allowed to sign up at this point. Thanks for all the interest, though, and stay tuned!

Seeking soap hunk experts

I am toying around with the idea of a special section at soaphunks.net for the 100 Sexiest Soap Hunks of All Time, in which all hunks from all soaps from all years will be rated and evaluated by a team of judges in a wide variety of categories (face, body, longevity, sex appeal, willingness to show off, etc). I don't want this to just be my opinion, but I don't want people with major allegiances to just one show or one guy to sway the voting.

That being the case, I am looking for soap fans who are familiar with a lot of soaps (past and present) and a lot of soap hunks (past and present). If you fit that description, feel you can vote objectively, and are interested, drop me a line and introduce yourself. If approved, you'll be contacted soon with a big ballot to capture all of your thoughts.

New 'Passions' hunks

Here's your first look at Harmony's last hunky recasts! Starting in the next month or so will be Adrian Bellani (Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald), who takes over the role vacated in 2003 by Jesse Metcalfe; and Mark Cameron Wystrach (Fox Crane), who will be stepping in for the now-departing Justin Hartley. I certainly like what I see so far!

DAYS haze

As it starts off a new year, I hope DAYS gets all of its sand back in the hourglass in '06 and stops being so sloppy. The upcoming Zach-killed-off storyline has enormous potential for impacting a wide canvas of characters, if only they do it right. (Though no soap will ever do this storyline as well as GH did in 1993...memo to Soap Opera Digest: this plotline is NOT groundbreaking as you claim.)

I'll probably be content if they just don't drop the story in midstream, like they did with so many others in 2005:

• Blind Abe was treating Lexie so badly, pushing to the arms of the yummy Tek. Now Tek has completely vanished and Abe is being nice as can be.
• Frankie was brought in to immediately investigate the shady dealings of Patrick, who has similarly disappeared. Maybe he's off somewhere with Tek? I hope he's not up to anything, because Frankie sure has forgotten about the investigation.
• Why did Brandon, who wanted his name cleared for the in-bed-with-Sami setup, have zip to do with the resolution of that storyline? The character was still supposedly in town during this, and has yet to be heard from. I guess he still hasn't been told that he could have sued Kate for drugging him.
• I guess we're to assume that Jan Spears is still laid out in a coma. The wrap-up (or lack of one) to the love cage storyline was among the most unsatisfying in DAYS history.
• And how many Jack-isn't-really-dead storylines are they going to foist on us? Isn't this his fifth, and his third overall inside a year?

At least they're keeping Austin Peck undressed. That's something.