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With a couple of exceptions (48 Hours, with its cinema verite immediacy, and the style-setting 60 Minutes), most of these shows seem interchangeable. Efforts to find gimmicks (a live studio audience on PrimeTime Live, for one regrettable example) have been mostly jettisoned in favor of the tried-and- true 60 Minutes formula. Before the March debut of Day One, executive producer Tom Yellin promised that the show would feature some longer stories and a mold-breaking format: "If our program is three pieces of the same length and then a light, short piece at the end, then we will...
BOOKS The Night Manager, John le Carre's new dazzler, has the smooth whoosh of a Bentley. THEATER Terrence McNally's play is a miracle worker. TELEVISION A weekend in the life of one troubled family makes a fine mini-series. CINEMA In the Line of Fire casts Eastwood as Clintosaurus rex. MUSIC In mid-megatour, U2 releases a reflective album...
...CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...
...script for The Adventures of Fartman, starring Howard Stern, America's top radio ranter. "We didn't hold back," Lawton says. "There's a lot of nudity, some harsh language, a lesbian love scene, and the main character works for an underground sex magazine. We told New Line Cinema the plot, and they said, 'Yeah, it sounds great. But can't we make it PG-13?' " Lawton and Stern are looking for a less fretful sponsor...
...CINEMA: The Kidding of Hollywood...