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...film a sex scene. You can use MTV's strobe-lit quick cuts of gleaming torsos or Melrose Place's campy, heaving melodrama. But when Rick and Lily, the fortyish divorces (O.K., Lily doesn't have hers yet) whose romance fuels the new series Once and Again (ABC, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. E.T.), first make love, it's done like this: long, somber takes. Clumsy false starts. Cuddling. Tears. And talking. Lots of talking...
Their influence, though, transcends ratings. thirtysomething's young professionals sitting around chatting about nothing--it must be said--paved the way for successors as varied as Seinfeld, Friends and Wasteland, which debuts on ABC on Oct 7. And echoes of My So-Called Life, this decade's ur-teen drama, resonate in Dawson's Creek, Felicity and the like. "We consider that show the ultimate standard of quality," says Tony Krantz, CEO of Imagine Television, which produces Felicity. "Ed and Marshall are role models...
...problem even extends to commercials. A recent football commercial on ABC made fun of Indian movies. The ad, roughly summarized: ABC showed a cheesy clip from an Indian movie. "Monday night in India," the screen said. Then they showed a clip of football players. "Monday night in America," it explained...
...also explained controversial comments he made this past weekend on the issue of gays in the military this past Sunday on the ABC News program This Week...
First reported by the Cambridge Chronicle and then picked up by the Boston Globe, the news acquired a national currency, even being pitched in the network newsroom of ABC in New York...