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...annual Campus Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service survey that 79 percent of students favored military action. While college students have traditionally been more trusting in diplomacy than the nation as a whole, in the wake of September 11th, the gap had shrunk. According to the IOP and an ABC news poll, 76 percent of college students supported military action against nations that assist or sponsor terrorism—close to the 87 percent of the general population that felt the same...
...current project, “My Wife and Kids,” airs Wednesdays on ABC and stars Damon Wayans and Tisha Campbell-Martin...
...when Kopple, 55, was approached to memorialize the Hamptons summer of 2001 for ABC, she was so enthusiastic that she trooped out to the shore in the dead of winter to shoot a sample reel of interviews. "I went in with no agenda," says Kopple, whose credits include films about Mike Tyson and Woody Allen. "It wouldn't make for an interesting piece...
...place as social gatekeeper. Jacqueline Lipson, a matrimonial attorney, has a commando-like determination to land a husband that puts The Bachelor's contestants to shame. ("I will not be not married at 30," she says. "I have a whole life plan. And it starts with this summer.") ABC calls the show a "reality mini-series"--networkese for "If we said 'documentary,' nobody would watch"--but the low-key, cinema verite narrative may put off fans of Survivor's contrived reality. Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president for movies and mini-series, says Kopple resisted suggestions that she artificially...
...doubt ABC would have had an easier time selling When Grubman Attacks! But The Hamptons' antisensationalism--occasionally to the point of dullness--is also its strength. It avoids cheap shots, even at a couple who model their wedding on Sean (P. Diddy) Combs' famous "white party" by having their guests dress up like Good Humor men. It treats the swank partygoers and the workers setting up the shrimp-cocktail bar with equal sympathy. Like Gatsby, The Hamptons shows how a summer place comes to represent and be changed by the dreams and appetites of the people who love and consume...