Not my story, but a friend had his family in town around his birthday, and his sister really wanted to see the new Tom Cruise movie, "Vanilla Sky." So he, the sister, their mother, aunt, etc. all ended up at the theater. In the scene where Cameron Diaz has Tom trapped in her car and is reading him the riot act for…

It's one thing to have a fictional soap with a character who commits suicide and the ensuing storyline. It's quite another to have a show utilizing real people and incorporate an individual's real suicide as the climax of a season-long story arc.