As The World Turns - The Final Curtain
Michael Kirby Smith for TIME
A Dramatic Day
Van Hansis, playing Luke Snyder, stands in his fictional mother's three-walled living room. Soaps shoot some 250 episodes a year, one for each weekday, a herculean feat unlike anything else in television.
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