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...eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use. "If it were just about food, we would squirt it into their mouths with a tube," says Robin Fox, an anthropologist who teaches at Rutgers University in New Jersey, about the mysterious way that family dinner engraves our souls. "A meal is about civilizing children. It's about teaching them to be a member of their culture...
...large majorities of Americans support something akin to what President Bush and the Senate have pushed, a so-called "comprehensive reform" law that would create a guest worker program and provide some path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country. A recent poll from Fox News showed about 63% of Americans supported the Senate approach, a CBS poll puts that number at around 77%, depending on the wording of the question. Meanwhile, a New York Times poll showed 66% of Americans opposed a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border...
...chosen just one Telemundo tale for development, Body of Desire, and tapped as executive producer Nely Galán, a TV veteran in both Spanish and English whose most recent hit was the Fox plastic surgery--reality TV spectacle The Swan. Body of Desire spins the story of a wealthy man married to a beautiful woman; the man dies and is reincarnated in the body of a laborer, only to find that all the people in his former life are phonies. The supernatural twist, Richard says, will appeal to viewers hooked on shows like Medium...
...distributor, however, is convinced that Americans are ready to commit. "Reality TV has demonstrated that the American public will get behind a character for a short period," says Bob Cook, president of Twentieth Television, the development and production unit of Fox. Cook has adapted two telenovelas to air in September: Table for Three, a love triangle involving two brothers in a Mafia family, and Fashion House, starring Bo Derek as the powerful queen of a fashion empire. Each show will air daily for 13 weeks, with recap episodes on the weekends...
...shows will be the centerpiece for MyNetworkTV, a new network formed by Fox out of 139 mainly small- and middle-market stations, from Topeka, Kans., to Utica, N.Y., that were left behind after the merger of UPN and the WB networks. Just as UPN featured African-American shows and the WB turned into a home for angsty teenage dramas, MyNetworkTV could make its mark with the telenovelas, its first original programming. "We're purchasing several years' worth of novelas," Cook says. If those two don't find an audience, he'll try others. "We believe in this...