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Given the John Henry-vs.-the steam-drill conflict in modern justice, the surprise hit of the new TV season is not such a surprise. CSI (CBS, Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a slick, formulaic crime drama set in Las Vegas, is a cop show with a twist: the heroes are crime-scene investigators (CSIs), forensic scientists who use high-tech tools to nab crooks. The show has a certain Vegas-y rock-'n'-roll sleaze appeal, but underneath it all, CSI is the geek Quincy, in which the true stars are the nail clippings, computer records, carpet fibers and above...
...hair trend for a short time in the late '70s. Let's remember "Charlie's Angels" as it truly was: a pathetically awful bit of TV. Its emphasis on fine bodies, scenic locales and perfect hair didn't elevate it to "so bad it's good" status (a la "Cop Rock"); the show was, to be blunt, a big bore...
Harvey won't cop to the L-word in her personal life, but she admits Stories is partially fueled by a newfound geographic passion. "I love New York City," she says. "Sometimes you find a place that just feels like your home, where you feel really alive and you are your own person. I love New York from the bottom of my heart." After working on a Hal Hartley movie in the city in 1998 (average listener, try not to hold his art-film pedigree against her), she spent the majority of 1999 living near Riverside Park in Manhattan...
...while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...
...something shocking of its own. Americans Against Hate, a newly formed group run by G.O.P. consultant Stephen Marks, is up in four states with a spot linking Gore with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton, says the announcer, admires Hitler (flash to photo of the dictator) and defends rapists and cop killers (video of Willie Horton-style mug shots). The ad asks, "Mr. Gore...what kind of unholy alliance will you have with Al Sharpton?" Another ad, sponsored by a mysterious outfit called Aretino Industries, tells us that the Clinton-Gore Administration has traded national security for campaign contributions and that...