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...trying to exploit this controversy for ratings success? The eye network does survive in the ratings wars between the Big Three, but just barely. And with flagships shows like "Touched by an Angel" and "60 Minutes," it often fails to capture the lucrative 18-49 demographic. So is CBS willing to air these shows which exploit their contestants in an attempt to win back the youth audience...
...part on "Young and the Restless" and I made big money. I even got free Taco Bell. Then it all snowballed from there. I pretended to be a student for awhile and I eventually found myself $30,000 in debt. Then, the casting director of "Touched By an Angel" found me again and here...
When the Nielsen ratings are released, CBS executives will find that "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Touched By An Angel" and even the much ridiculed "Falcone" will have had more viewers than the final round of the 63rd Masters Tournament...
...marginally successful author, Ted Swenson can summon up only limp enthusiasm for the creative-writing course he teaches at a second-rate college in remote Vermont. Suffering through classes with unimaginative students and dinners with pedantic colleagues, the disgruntled professor of Francine Prose's abrasively comic new novel, Blue Angel (Harper Collins; 314 pages; $25), can't wait to rush home so he can avoid writing his overdue third novel. In addition to battling ennui, Swenson must also contend with a forbidding campus environment fraught with race and gender minefields...
...senses Swenson's fate almost from his first meeting with Angela; not only does Prose repeatedly refer to the 1930 film Blue Angel, which features the debasement of an infatuated professor, but she has also constructed her collegiate climate as a latter-day Salem, tyrannized by the puritanical forces of sexual-harassment policies that demand some sacrifice. However, by presenting neither character as an obvious victim or villain, the novel maintains a level of suspense, momentum and humor. And though the hypocrisy of the political-correctness movement has been amply explored elsewhere, Prose still manages to find fresh ways...