It's hard to watch daytime soaps chip away piece by piece, and of course, no one actor isdaytime TV. But watching Martha Byrne leave As the World Turns (because of a contract disagreement with Procter & Gamble) is really painful. If ATWT can be looked at as a truly American heartland soap (as my friend Sam Ford and his students do in his soap class at MIT), than Byrne is indeed as American as Mom and Apple Pie.
"As the World Turns": Goodbye to Martha Byrne, Soaps' Last Sweet Teen Heroine
