King of Queens: Vincent Irizarry

Of all the possible jobs in the entertainment history, the most difficult and most insecure is that of the actor. To be an excellent actor is quite an achievement in addition to the extreme difficulty in being a gainfully employed actor. That is no revelation.

Popular stars, celebrities, are treated like royalty whether they are good actors or not. Television and mainstream cinema treat them as if they were commodities or a product on the shelf. Many, if not the victims of the public's and producers' fickleness, become the victim of overexposure.

The Soap Opera actor's lot is no different and in many instances worse. They live between a rock and a hard place in that they are often held hostage by the very fans who claim to love and adore them whereby they get pigeonholed and stymied or get overused by the executive element to the extent of watching their craft get diluted and diffused. The other side of that is that they are enslaved by a system that writes stories by committee and rewards more than a few people with no real talent except knowing how to survive. The omniscient, omnipresent and omnivorous Carolyn Hinsey, editor and bar owner, writes about that today in her column in the Daily News.

In another incident, it is not earth shattering news that the very talented and charismatic native of Queens, Vincent Irizarry, has been let go from All My Children after nearly a decade of on screen chemistry with many of his castmates, both male and female. The news is that he was so disrespected after so many years of a job well done by being the last to know.







Fans knew about it before he did. It is now official. All My Children has been diminished once again.