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...Almost Perfect and Good Company. The latter show is set at an ad agency where copywriters spent most of one episode ridiculing a "toilet paper with baking soda"--a product actually sold by P&G rival Scott Paper. While P&G also owns several long-running daytime soap operas, the baking soda gibe is the sort of "product message" (a.k.a. advertisement) that gains mileage and legitimacy when slipped sub rosa into a prime-time showcase. (P&G swears that all creative decisions are Paramount...
Another cop (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) has an affair with a stewardess he first seduced at 30,000 ft. But when she leaves, he goes amiably nuts, brushing the fur of his stuffed animals, talking to a bar of soap ("You've lost a lot of weight--you need more self-confidence!"). He's just the lost soul for a fast-food cook (punk pixie Faye Wang) who sneaks into his flat each day for some erotomaniacal housecleaning. It's a match made in Hong Kong heaven...
...newest and sharpest cybersoaps is The East Village, which debuted on the World Wide Web late last month. Revolving around a group of young aspiring artists who convene in the body-pierced precincts of lower Manhattan, The East Village is the soap most self-consciously targeted to the Net's alternative-culture sensibility. Its heroine is Eve, a writer whose diary relates the goings-on of her barhopping social circle: Daphne, a struggling actress; Joe, a cartoonist who has a thing for Eve; and Mick, the resident slacker, the object of Eve's desire because "he is from the heartland...
...most troubling aspect of this adaptation of Genesis to the stage is its almost total lack of religious ideas. The verses of the Bible, so powerful and rich in their original context as inspired writings, have been made into musical soap operas. While it seems that Chirkov is an accomplished director in his own country--a 40-year-veteran of stage and film in Ukraine, he is almost unknown in the Western Hemisphere--he lacks a sense of the sacred in his play-writing. The story of Genesis and the events following it are given superficial treatment, and nothing more...
That Savannah, a new soap from producer Aaron Spelling (Sundays, 9 p.m. EST), could seem more grounded in reality than anything else on WB is indeed a tribute, though to what is open to debate. The show, which debuted last month and garnered the network its highest ratings ever (3.6 Nielsen points, compared with its average of 2.4), revolves around young women who live, love, cheat and eat a lot of pecan pie in the fashionable Georgia city that gives the show its name. Spelling has made some missteps in the past few years (e.g., University Hospital); with Savannah...