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...frank discussion of sexual morality, celibacy, women priests or homosexuality, it's not likely to happen anytime soon. The usual diversions designed to avoid these subjects were thrown about with abandon. This is a purely American problem, some church spokesmen argued, as if scandals weren't exploding elsewhere: an ABC News report charged the Vatican itself with covering up abuse claims against a priest previously praised by the Pope. Then there was the scapegoating of gays. Equating homosexuality with child abuse is one of the oldest slanders there is - but this church didn't hesitate to invoke it to deflect...
...expectations. It was, as her father would say, constructive revenge: she made Omar Khatib realize his mistake and acknowledge the humanity of his would-be victim. Omar is still in jail, but has begun corresponding with Laura’s father and, in an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC, freely acknowledged that Laura had made him see the error of his ways...
Networks and cable channels are moving cautiously ahead. CBS, the HD leader, records almost all its prime-time shows in high def, and ABC about half. NBC lags far behind. Entrepreneur Paul Allen has his own high-def channel, ASCN, based in Portland, Ore. HBO (owned by TIME's parent company AOL Time Warner) and Showtime provide high-def programming to satellite-TV subscribers...
...will be to wed girlfriend Hilary Quinlan; he will also continue to act as host on Real Sports on hbo. Beyond that, little of his plans are known. Though its ratings have improved somewhat, The Early Show has languished in third place in its time slot, behind NBC and abc, drawing attention mainly when ousted contestants from the previous night's Survivor showed up for a debriefing. Gumbel's relationship with Katie Couric on Today was at times frosty, and he and Early Show co-host Jane Clayson never really cozied up either. No word yet on who will cozy...
...networks will find a lame, copycat way to do it wrong," says producer Judd Apatow (Undeclared). "Most television is constructed by committee. And a show like this doesn't have a committee, so it can't be watered down." The networks are already considering new twists on reality series. ABC is positioning The Hamptons, a two-part documentary by Barbara Kopple about the Long Island resort towns, to air in June, as "the first reality mini-series." Whether The Osbournes affects how sitcoms tell funny stories is another matter. Perhaps you can't make up something that original...