Toby Goldstein
Toby Goldstein has written about the onscreen and behind-the-scenes world of television soap operas for Tribune Media Services for almost 20 years. A veteran entertainment journalist based in New York, Goldstein, for three years a senior editor at "Soap Opera Digest," reported on nighttime serials like "Dallas" and "Knots Landing," as well as daytime dramas.
After obtaining an undergraduate degree and pursuing graduate work in communications studies at Queens College, Goldstein specialized in reporting about rock music. She has worked as a radio correspondent for both the British Broadcasting Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, Creem (as a contributing editor), Hit Parader, the London Daily Mail, and the Toronto Globe & Mail. She has also written biographies of The Cars, Duran Duran and Twisted Sister and the book "Waking From the Dream," a history of the 1960s for young readers, which has been used in several school curricula. Toby also ran her own public relations business, Anglomedia, whose clients included The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Manic Panic, one of the first punk shops in New York.
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The Soap Scene
TWO NEW SOAPS RENEWED FOR SECOND SEASON: NBC has followed up one of the biggest flops of the 2011-12 primetime season with one of its biggest hits.
Felicia's visit to Mac on Maxie's behalf results in an awkward situation
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: Her wedding plans under way, Hope confronted Steffy about her overconfident attitude regarding who Liam will choose. DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Thanks to their discovery of a way to shield themselves, everyone survived the explosion.
The Soap Scene
'GH' SAVED, 'REVOLUTION' GONE -- HAPPY NEWS FOR SOAP VIEWERS: In a stunning reversal of the bad luck plaguing daytime viewers for several years, ABC has renewed "General Hospital" and canceled "The Revolution" -- the show that knocked "One Life to...
Cassie and her friends face death over a powerful crystal
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: Stressed by the paparazzi, Hope secretly took another pill. DAYS OF OUR LIVES: Furious to have been duped about the coin, Stefano put a double agent inside the safe house to wire it with explosives.
The Soap Scene
FORMER "YOUNG AND RESTLESS" SUPERCOUPLE RETURN TO GENOA CITY: Lauralee Bell and Michael Damian have appeared on "Young and Restless" individually, following their time as a couple of the late 1980s and early '90s, but it's been eight years since t...
Emily discovers the identity of the man who murdered her father
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL: When Liam insisted on bringing Hope with him to Fashion Week in Aspen, despite her dependence on pills, Bill launched a scheme to undermine Hope by swarming her with paparazzi.
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