Ridge white hair

the Bold & the Beautiful ...... the Phenomenon

during the 90s, this series was the HIT

every egyptian watched the 9.30pm episode of the american series

even people who don't speak english

the faces of the stars were so attractive

and especially RIDGE

oh .. i remember how girls used to talk about him in school ELshabab monthly magazine give some star posters away with every issue, one month it was the RIDGE poster

i remember exactly what happened that day in school

girls came to school with the magazine ........ "this was Forbidden"

they were ready to deal with the sisters (catholic school) and get the punishment

BUT they couldn't afford to wait after school to buy the magazine "7ate7'lasss"

one girl said: i'll buy 10 issues to get 10 posters to cover all the walls of my room with his picture

later, the cast came in tour to Egypt

it was hilarious!!!!

people waited from them in the airport, in the streets

it was first page news in the national newspaper :ridge is in Egypt

no one cared to know their real names, they were ridge stephanie eric brooke ...

even the music contaminated with this epidemic: a girl in my school class gave me a tape for eric's songs

he sing too, u know .. oh he 's (yehbal) don't know the word in english

EGYPT spent sometime under the spell, before it slowly gone

people start to understand new terms like "soap"

i remember this conversation:

- this is soap

- heh?

- soap

- soap? like cleaning soap?

- no soap, just a term used for this kind of shows

- meaning?

- it's about shows for housewives to watch in the morning, well this shows aren't that value, it's just something to fill the time of the channels there, well u know in usa there are hundreds of channels and ......

new terms like "soap, channelssssssssss, satelites, ....."

at that time, we had only channel 1, 2 eltelevision elmasry elra2ed

so people who lived in egypt all their lives didn't get it easily that in another countries the TV isn't only governmental 2 channels

anyway

it was toooooooooo slowwwwwww

and it had a particular point that the series authors insisted on doing over and over again

which is "any man can fall in love with any woman / it's just a man and a woman in a relationship"

so it doesn't matter if brooke loved the father and the 2 suns and married the three of them

briefly ridge was the star of the 90s for us and he was the handsome actor that any girl was ready to watch him for hours even if he said nonsense or kept silent

then the TV repented for this sin and introduced the japanese "Oshin"

and people switched 180 degree

to find out how silly and shallow is the american soaps

and oshin had lot of common with people in the rural

so people were attracted to the character not only girls but grown up men too

yesterday, during my 10m tv time i watched the bold in the beautiful 2008

it was for 10 seconds only, couldn't bare more

ridge is old with white hair, almost same lines sine a decade

it was a shock

ridge is OLD

now i'm looking to it with a fresh point of vue

how a man sold his entire life for a soap????????

he's only work is this soap?

he's entire achivement in life was doing a handsome soap character?????

i never saw him in any other soap or movie or even on the movie news in MSN/ Yahoo

well, this post isn't clear enough

i remember how stupide we were, i wonder how stupide he's

i'm telling my self to learn and do something with my life