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...difficult to imagine what it was like to be Jim Webb last week. It should have been the moment that his race against Republican Senator George Allen crystallized. Two debates were scheduled. They promised to be the sharpest discussion about Iraq in any Senate campaign this year. Allen's support for the war has been uninflected but not entirely uninformed. The Senator has visited Iraq several times and has a solid knowledge of the contending forces there...
...with sophomore quarterback Robert Irvin, who played in just his first game last weekend. The line will see three new faces, but returning seniors Dan McDonald and Matt Carre will lead the receiving core. The defense returns four All-Ivy honorees, including Ivy Rookie of the Year linebacker Andrew Allen, but the secondary misses seven major players...
Radio humorist Fred Allen famously said that imitation is the sincerest form of television. But usually it's different networks doing the imitating. How did NBC get two shows in the same unusual milieu in the same season? Apparently by coincidence. Fey, who had a four-year development deal with NBC, first pitched the network a sitcom about cable news. Kevin Reilly, president of NBC Entertainment, felt Fey was using the news setting as a fig leaf for her own experience and encouraged her to write what she knew. Sorkin, meanwhile, was shopping his return to TV with a show...
WHAT KIND OF A RACE IS THIS? Embattled Virginia Senator George ("Some of My Best Friends Are Macacas") Allen, who is up for re-election in November, does himself no favors in combatting allegations of racism by holding--and we quote--an "ethnic rally." At least he doesn't wear his Confederate- flag pin. When is he going to get his own Survivor team and be done with...
...those of you who remember Woody Allen's mix of real and reel lives in The Purple Rose of Cairo - or if you sometimes think your life is a movie, and wonder what the DVD commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal...