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TUESDAY THE NEW AMSTERDAM THEATER This morning the WB assured us it would not miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer (lost to UPN) one bit. This afternoon ABC says it is not a smidge disappointed in the fading Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Everything is beautiful at the upfronts. Every old show is hot, every new one a sure hit, and every network is No. 1. The WB? No. 1 in teens! NBC? No. 1 in the rich! Through the magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen...
...trips of two Iranian directors tested their journalistic as well as dramatic instincts. Kiarostami, who won Cannes' highest prize in 1997 for The Taste of Cherry, was invited by the Uganda Women's Efforts to Save Orphans to tour their AIDS-ravaged country for 10 days. The resulting documentary, ABC Africa, may not be what either the filmmaker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. Stick a camera in any child...
While Eden Riegel ’02 gratefully acknowledges that the last 10 months of her own life have not been nearly as dramatic as Bianca’s, her experience playing the shy teenager on the hit ABC daytime drama “All My Children” has brought with it changes no less significant. In March, Riegel was nominated for an Emmy...
...first awards show, and I had a blast. I just reminded myself that this is something to be savored,” she said of the evening, which began with a pre-show cast dinner and ended with a party thrown by ABC...
...crimes punishable by death; now they are cosponsoring the Innocence Protection Act, which sets minimum standards for appointed lawyers in capital cases and requires access to DNA tests. Americans may overwhelmingly support the execution of Timothy McVeigh, but a shift is taking place across the country. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 63% in favor of the death penalty, down from 80% seven years ago. Other polls show that 80% think innocent people have been executed in the past five years...