He Brought the Passions
James E. Reilly (July 15, 1948 – October 2008)[1][2]) was an American soap opera writer. Known for his work as the head writer of NBC’s Days of our Lives and creator/head writer of Passions, Reilly chose financial core status with the Writers Guild of America during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[3]
Reilly won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing as head writer for Guiding Light in 1993.[2]
Reilly died suddenly in October 2008 while recovering from cardiac surgery.
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He wrote a show that had: poisoned wedding rings; a mysterious shed that inspired dialogue like, “I TOLD YOU NEVER TO ASK ME ABOUT THE SHED,” and of course, “I could NEVER forget The SHED”; talking candles; the disembodied head of Adrian Zmed, wearing a tri-corner hat; a doctor who specialized in every conceivable kind of medicine, including administering lethal injections in prison; kidnappers who dressed up as clowns; a living doll (rest in peace, Timmy); a scene in which a local house was sucked into Hell; a zombie character; a She-Male serial killer who later got pregnant with its own father’s child; an army of lesbian nuns; a castration and subsequent botched penis-reattachment that resulted in it being stuck on backwards; countless scenes about how any stimulation of said wonked-up wang would result in DEATH; a whole storyline about how Whitney couldn’t sing jazz because her father felt you would never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than in a JAZZ CLUB; a murder mystery in which character did things like carry around books called How To Murder Your Sister And Get Away With It, or something; a little girl who communicated via cartoon thought bubbles; a witch who Saw Things in her magic bowl; and in the end, a suddenly active volcano in the middle of New England that threatened to destroy the town (spoiler: it didn’t).
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