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Putin told Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline last Friday that he was bringing in, as investigators, former KGB colleagues "who are untarnished and have no connection with corruption." Still, the jury is out on the level of Putin's anticorruption zeal. Two prominent members of the Family, Dyachenko and Yumashev, are actively involved in his election campaign. But clouds seem to be thickening over the head of Berezovsky, the most unpopular and pugnacious of the so-called oligarchs. A belief is growing among Russia's political and business elite that Putin wants to destroy Berezovsky's political power. There...
...Thursday - Lazaro Gonzalez and his family appear to remain defiant. The only circumstance under which they'd surrender the boy, his daughter Marisleysis told CNN Tuesday, was if Elian's father came to their home in Miami and the boy wanted to leave with him. On the latter point, ABC announced, in the face of fierce criticism over its Elian Gonzalez interview, that it had excised the portion in which he expresses his desire to remain in the U.S. The decision had been taken "so as not to take a position in this highly charged political atmosphere," said ABC News...
Mentally ill, though, that's another story. "The shadow people," as the psychiatric drama Wonderland (ABC, debuts March 30, 10 p.m. E.T.) calls them, pervade overstressed hospitals and precincts in real life, yet lurk invisible in prime time's institutional dramas. This literate and impeccably executed series, alas, may prove why. From the opening scene of a patients' group session devolving into a shouting match, to the story of a multiple murderer with a Zeus complex, Wonderland all but begs viewers to flip to the comparatively cheery bloodbaths...
...ever-cost depravity of America's media culture inevitably made Elian Gonzalez the most sought-after interview since Monica Lewinsky. But the fact that the distant relatives who are trying to keep the six-year-old in Miami against the wishes of his father gave the go-ahead for ABC's Diane Sawyer spend two days with him late last week - the first installment of her interview was broadcast Monday - may be a sign of desperation. The Miami relatives had long resisted the temptation, knowing full well how badly Middle America might judge their forcing a bereaved and confused child...
While preparing for the interview, ABC journalists turned up tidbits that will be new to all but JonBenet junkies. For instance, the network will air never published photos taken outside JonBenet's house the morning after she was killed that are remarkable for what they don't depict: snow. One of the most damning pieces of evidence against the parents has been the absence of footprints leading to the house. No footprints, no intruder. But the pictures show only patches of snow that could have been avoided. (By the time the media had camped outside the house, however, there...