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Consider yourself warned. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are all developing English-language versions of the over-the-top Spanish-language soap operas known as telenovelas. Unlike American soaps, telenovelas air in prime time, with a cliffhanger at the conclusion of each hour-long episode, and end after a few months. The networks are hoping to find in the telenovela a new format, like reality TV, that will reclaim viewers who have soured on sitcoms, police procedurals and, well, reality TV. "The reality-TV genre is growing stale, and networks are looking for a new, low-cost format to fill...
...morning: the city had its 50th murder the night before, adding to a huge spike above 2005; his opponent in the race for California attorney general has just called him soft on crime; one of the two charter schools he helped start is in need of cash; and now Fox television wants him to go on camera as a commentator and defend a new text-messaging service being marketed to teens that offers information on sex. "I am a little stressed today," he says...
...diving into the unforgiving cauldron of Oakland politics a decade ago. He is at an age when overachievers in nearly every other profession would start to pack it in. But no man who wakes up at 5 a.m. to read and has been known to keep an eye on Fox News after midnight should be considered a candidate for retirement anytime soon...
...says. "Anything is possible." Al Gore "would be powerful" as an antiwar candidate if, Brown says, "he loses some weight." The mayor has no patience for George W. Bush. Brown calls him a "cowboy." Republicans are under fire for so many things, Brown observes, that even "Fox News is exhibiting signs of anxiety...
...hour into the Senate hearing, almost half of the members of the public in the audience had left; even Senator Trent Lott walked out, to return only near the very end. Hayden was so dull at one point that many in the room were listening more closely to the Fox TV correspondent who had forgotten to close the door to his broadcast booth and whose reports could be heard by almost everyone in the room. The Senators doing the questioning were far from scintillating either. Several GOP members challenged Hayden with such hard-hitting questions as: "Will you brief...