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...first season of NYPD Blue that he abruptly left for the movies, breaking his contract and leaving few friends. Two bad films later, Caruso wants to return to TV to play, according to Variety, a crusading attorney. But in his rush to leave TV, he signed a deal with ABC and ex-boss Steven Bochco, promising not to return until 1998. After some negotiation, it appears they won't stand in his way. Meanwhile, Dennis Franz, the tortoise of our story, is at home with an Emmy and in theaters with the well received American Buffalo...
...days at the beginning of the crisis, the American press echoed the falsehood. The Wall Street Journal, front page, reported Palestinian violence sparked by a "tunnel on Jerusalem's Temple Mount." It isn't. ABC News' Peter Jennings parroted the charge: "Muslims say the tunnel cuts under their compound and call it a crime against Islam." It doesn't and it isn't. The Washington Post explained that "it should come as no surprise that violent passions were aroused by Israel's tampering with the ground beneath the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque." No ground beneath either...
There are pain and honor in this performance, and they constantly rise up to redeem a film that is less probing, less thoughtful than its director's claims and aspirations for it. The problems with Michael Collins begin with its conventional three-act movie structure--ABC, QED. This is fine for fiction, but history, as everyone who has lived some of it knows, works more waywardly and coincidentally than that. Especially when it's in the throes of revolution...
...visits with David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell and Conan O'Brien, but the sitcom star reserved her vigor for teasing--and testing--audiences with what has become the Grand Question of the TV season: Will Ellen Morgan, the sneaker-loving, jewelry-avoiding bookstore manager that DeGeneres plays on her ABC series Ellen, soon realize that for her, the world will hold only Ms. Rights...
...possibility has already sparked censure from the religious right and clamorous support from homosexual activists primarily because Ellen Morgan would be the first gay lead character ever on TV. Disney, the show's producer, and ABC remain silent on the sitcom's plans. All the network will say is that it has yet to see a script with a lesbian story line. Some industry executives speculate, however, that the network leaked the notion of outing Ellen to test advertiser reaction. DeGeneres has reportedly never been comfortable with the dating subplots of her TV vehicle, and now that rerun rights have...