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Bernard reports that he has received more requests for combination surgeries since the premiere of Extreme Makeover, a phenomenally popular reality show on ABC in which subjects undergo as many as six surgeries at a time to remove any perceived flaws on their bodies. He says the show has generated good p.r. for the field, but he is worried that it raises unrealistic expectations. "People don't realize that subjects on the show are preselected," he says. "They're in excellent health, screened by psychologists and analyzed by the best plastic surgeons in the country to ensure that their transformation...
...Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; premieres March 3, 9 p.m. E.T.), the creepiest sign of trouble at the eponymous medical center is not the ghost of a 9-year-old girl that patrols the halls. It's not the occasional earthquakes--in Maine!--that rattle the grounds when otherworldly forces are upset. It's the hospital's corporate logo, a sleek V shape with curlicues at the top, gleaming on the building's facade and twirling on its computer screensavers. After a few seconds, one realizes it's actually a stylized satanic goat's head...
...third, most unusual--and therefore scariest--show is a surprisingly playful story given that it is based on its author's near death. ABC has played up the comparisons between Kingdom Hospital and David Lynch's Twin Peaks, though Kingdom isn't as arty, original or elliptical. But like Peaks, it is funny, which is no small feat (compare HBO's smart but painfully self-serious Carnivale). Some of the best scenes seem thrown in simply because they amused King--for instance, a dig at reality TV in which we see the stoner who hit Rickman, at home, racked with...
Courtesy was a massive crossover hit, yet as he predicted, "it wasn't for everybody." Peter Jennings reportedly had Keith axed from ABC's July 4, 2002, special (the network denied that it was Jenning's call), while Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines minced no words: "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant." All of this played right into Keith's exaggerated sense of grievance. He notes that Jennings is Canadian born and wonders whether Dan Rather would have barred him from CBS. At his concerts last year, he briefly...
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