As The World Turns - The Final Curtain
Michael Kirby Smith for TIME
Scene from on High
Van Hansis plays Luke Snyder in a scene caught on a boom-mike monitor. The market for daytime television soap operas is waning because of dwindling ratings and how cheap it is to produce alternatives like talk and game shows.
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