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...Burnett was at NBC, basking in the afterglow of his hit "The Apprentice" and the excitement over his upcoming boxing show, "The Contender." Today, we learned that Burnett would have three new shows on The WB. There's "Commando Nanny," a comedy loosely based on the former special-forces soldier's experience as a nanny in L.A. (He's been taking dramatic license with other people's stories on "Survivor" for years, so fair's fair.) There's "Global Frequency," a drama about a super-secret intelligence agency that, in the network PR department's words, seeks to "prevent international...
Alright, you say, sounds like a soldier getting ready for battle. The speaker, you think, must be preparing for the worst, for no one would jest about war in these troubled times...
...ripped from recent headlines. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq and, to the cheers of his military audience, defiantly called himself ?a survivor? (a word traditionally reserved for those who have lived through the Holocaust or cancer, not for someone enduring political difficulties). In the film, a soldier tells Moore?s field team: ?If Donald Rumsfeld was here, I?d ask for his resignation...
...slightly different rhythm can be detected in the foreign offspring-in-emotional-peril movies coming to theaters now. In the elegant and understated Strayed, Andre Techine uses a grim, largely offscreen rumble--of war. A soldier's widow, Odile (the unimprovable Emmanuelle Beart), and her two children, 13-year-old Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer), are trapped, unable to move on a refugee-clogged road from Paris in 1940. When their car is destroyed, a mysterious youth, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), appears and leads them to a deserted chateau...
Tabloid Tumble Piers Morgan, the flamboyant editor of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, has survived many a scrape during his tabloid career, but the photographs he published two weeks ago purporting to show British soldiers brutally mistreating an Iraqi prisoner in the back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military...