Word: jailbreaker
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...that Survivor is over, what will we watch? The networks are doing their best to translate other foreign "reality" shows to American tastes: ABC has picked up Britain's Jailbreak (10 "prisoners" under 24-hr. surveillance try to escape for big money), and NBC has locked up Holland's Chains of Love (one person chained to a quartet of the opposite sex). But we found some gems they may have overlooked...
...There isn't one. In a season or two, the nation may be ready to enjoy "Jailbreak," about a bunch of people breaking out of a makeshift prison (really). All who escape will have to split the money, so too much teamwork costs. This is when the castaway genre begins to turn America into savages...
...Sight is another fine mess Elmore Leonard has got us into. Basically it's about a congenital bank robber named Jack Foley (George Clooney) who, in the course of a jailbreak, meets and falls into unlikely love with a U.S. marshal named Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). He's the kind of guy who works unarmed except for his gift of smooth gab. She's the kind of girl whose idea of a nice present from her dad is a new pistol. (The actors are terrific and sexy together...
...midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being a free choice... [I]f women attempt a free choice, it must be a kind of jailbreak...
Mary Letourneau's jailbreak--out of the gulag of troubled suburban marriage, out of her grownup's work as 37-year-old wife and mother, out of her moral and professional responsibilities, out of the Ozzie-and-Harriet zone altogether--landed her in the Washington Corrections Center for Women. No matter. Jail is freedom to outlaw love...