While channel-surfing during the recent holidays, I discovered that some things never change. For example, it’s nice to know that over the past 20 years soaps still have the same props: snarling villains, high camp (What’s up with that talking doll, anyway?), and Susan Lucci on All My Children. Fortunately, there are also beautiful men everywhere. Exhibit A is hunky Irish actor Thorsten Kaye, who currently stars in Port Charles. When checking him out on www.thorstenkaye.com, you’ll either read his impressive career credentials or look at his impressive physical credentials. Exhibit B is David Fumero ( geocities.com/Hollywood/Agency/1870/index.html, www.bossmodels.com/davidfumero.html), a Cuban-born former Boss model who plays Christian on One Life to Live. (I tell you, I had some very un-Christian thoughts the first time I saw this guy.

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