Word: angelical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Crashed out on a pile of purple cushions in her trailer, the Woman of the Future does not look as though she could clean your clock. Yet as Max, the bioengineered heroine of Dark Angel, the dystopian sci-fi drama from Titanic's James Cameron, Jessica Alba sports skintight bodysuits and leather as, swaggering lean and feline (literally: Max has cat DNA), she dives through windows and KO's tough guys twice her size. Now, barefoot and swaddled in a massive black turtleneck and baggy jeans, it's as if she has been shrunk within her clothes...
...Dark Angel's Seattle combines everyday anarchy with a looming dictatorial presence--which, some would say, describes a typical James Cameron movie set. But while reports of Cameron's whip-cracking approach on his sets are legion, he truly has stepped back since co-writing the first episode, leaving daily operations to Eglee. "The way to keep a show alive is to create a strong team and empower them," says Cameron. "Otherwise, if this thing's successful, I don't get to make another movie for two or three years." And he and Eglee say the series will emphasize relationships...
...save for the occasional Uhura (Star Trek) or Lando Calrissian (Star Wars), sci-fi has tended to look as white as space is black. Dark Angel is an exception. Cameron and his co-creator, Charles Eglee, have created a year 2020 that is intriguing (economic depression, lawlessness and authoritarianism set in after terrorists sabotage America's computers). "We said, 'Let's take our optimistic runaway prosperity and just drop-kick it,'" says Cameron. But just as captivating is the show's mix of black, brown, white and yellow faces. It was a conscious decision, says Eglee, to reflect the diversity...
...Dark Angel (Fox, Tuesdays starting Oct. 3, 9 p.m. E.T.) is also, as co-star Michael Weatherly puts it, a "gene-splicing experiment" of the styles of its two producers. Eglee, a veteran of Moonlighting and Murder One, originally thought of the show as "an urban youth ensemble." Cameron came up with the terrorist "infocalypse" and the central character--a bike-messenger-cum-thief, on the run from the military program that created her, who partners with an underground journalist named Logan (Weatherly) to search for her roots...
...send anybody these checks," I said to my wife. "Kittens! Angels!" Yes, my check No. 5222 had an angel on it. I know I'm on record as saying that the only exception I make to an absolutist belief in the free-speech guarantees of the First Amendment is that people who show slides of their trip to Europe should be put in jail for a very long time. But I've been sorely tempted lately to make another exception for people who correspond on notepaper that has angels...