Inqlings: For 5-year-old, the role of a lifetime

The region's newest soap-opera actor is a kindergartner. Plymouth Meeting's Patrick Gibbons Jr., 5, premieres Dec. 22 on ABC's One Life to Live as Sam Manning. Through plot twists that only daytime writers can muster, Sam is the son of Todd Manning (Trevor St. John) and was adopted by Blair Cramer (Kassie DePaiva). From birth, Sam had been played by sets of twins.