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W.E.B. (Sept. 13, NBC, 10 p.m. E.D.T.). When the movie Network came out two years ago, rumors ran that the Faye Dunaway character was actually based on Lin Bolen, a onetime programming v.p. at NBC. This was nasty gossip, because Dunaway played a feral TV executive who might run over her grandmother in pursuit of higher ratings. Bolen survived all the talk and has now re-emerged as the executive producer of W.E.B. Set at a fictional TV network, the show is Bolen's rejoinder to the movie that savaged her. Or at least it is supposed...
...tawdry roman à clef aspects aside, W.E.B. is not without its amusingly smarmy moments. This show's view of the industry is even more vicious than Network 's. According to Bolen, TV is run by sex-crazed, alcoholic, pill-popping men whose contempt for the public is exceeded only by their contempt for each other. "Television is a monster that never stops eating," explains one of them. True enough, but W.E.B. gives viewers that rare opportunity to watch television throw...
...success should be the folks who couldn't make camp, though. Senior Ed Sheehan, last year's numero uno, burned himself out this summer training and road-racing, and has missed the Grottonwood training camp. Sophomores Bob Bolen and Noel Scidmore, along with senior Guy McRoskey, have also passed up camp due to a variety of injuries...
...most interesting-sounding series on the list is W.E.B., a nighttime soap opera about-guess what?-a network. The series was created by Lin Bolen, a former NBC vice president, who was widely rumored to be a model for the Faye Dunaway character in the movie Network. Whether the rumor is true or not, Lin's fictional Trans American Broadcasting may be livelier than the real thing...
Others of a mystical bent feel less threatened by the comet, particularly because of its coincidence with Christmas. "I do not mean to suggest that another Christ will be born," wrote James Grayson Bolen, editor and publisher of the magazine Psychic, "but rather that an inner birth of Christ-like consciousness might occur." Imprisoned Acid Guru Timothy Leary, who was recently the beneficiary of a fund-raising "Comethon" in Santa Cruz, Calif., shares this optimism: "The Comet Starseed [Kohoutek] comes at the right time to return light to the planet earth." Adds Carl Schleicher, whose Washington-based Mankind Research Unlimited...