{"id":52728,"date":"2022-08-22T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/soap-writer-michael-malone-dead-at-80-brave-one-life-to-live-scribe\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:57:29","slug":"soap-writer-michael-malone-dead-at-80-brave-one-life-to-live-scribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/soap-writer-michael-malone-dead-at-80-brave-one-life-to-live-scribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Soap Writer Michael Malone Dead at 80: Brave One Life to Live Scribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Daytime has lost one on its greats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sad day indeed for daytime and its fans.  Michael Malone passed away on August 19 at the age of 80. And while you may not immediately recognize his name, if you watched <em>One Life to Live<\/em> at all in the 1990s, you definitely know his genius.<\/p>\n<p>An incredibly bold storyteller, Malone ushered in a brave new era of the show, one that included what <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> called \u201csome of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime \u2014 too good to be called &#8216;soap opera.&#8217;\u201d Among the characters that he created were Susan Batten&#8217;s trippy Luna Moody, future <em>General Hospital<\/em> star Roger Howarth&#8217;s (initially) vile Todd Manning and movie-star-to-be Ryan Phillippe&#8217;s Billy Douglas, whose coming out was a first for a daytime teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Malone&#8217;s unforgettable plots included the horrifying gang rape of Susan Haskell&#8217;s Marty Saybrooke and the subsequent trial, which earned Emmys for not only him and his writing team but also Haskell, Howarth and Hillary B. Smith, whose Nora Hanen was Todd&#8217;s attorney.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nora turns on Todd\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPoIYCRikcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A prolific author outside of daytime, Malone&#8217;s novel <em>The Killing Club<\/em> was incorporated into the soap as a book written by Kathy Brier&#8217;s Marcie Walsh.  It eventually rose to No.  11 on the <em>New York Times<\/em> Best Seller list.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing Malone&#8217;s death via Facebook, colleague Jean Passanante said that \u201cright now\u2026 I&#8217;m just trying to adjust to the impossible idea of \u200b\u200ba world without him.  &#8216;And when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars\u2026 &#8216;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clips: ONE LIFE TO LIVE - 6\/18\/1992 - Billy (Ryan Phillippe) comes out to best friend\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qx6IlBgWFls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay your respects to the other daytimers that we&#8217;ve lost in 2022 via the below photo gallery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video:<\/strong> YouTube\/Candyabble, Steven Capsuto<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daytime has lost one on its greats. It&#8217;s a sad day indeed for daytime and its fans. Michael Malone passed away on August 19 at the age of 80. And while you may not immediately recognize his name, if you watched One Life to Live at all in the 1990s, you definitely know his genius. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/soap-writer-michael-malone-dead-at-80-brave-one-life-to-live-scribe\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soap Writer Michael Malone Dead at 80: Brave One Life to Live Scribe<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[19875,46,19874],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35706,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/post-malone-raises-over-200000-with-gaming-for-love-twitch-series-billboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":52728,"position":0},"title":"Post Malone Raises Over $200,000 With &#8216;Gaming for Love&#8217; Twitch Series \u2013 Billboard","date":"August 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Post Malone's gaming efforts are officially a success. 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