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...years after the original pilot aired, change has come to the iconic California zip code, in the form of grownups with character arcs, lead cast members of color you can't get in a tanning booth, recreational YouTubing and espresso drinks. "Fans of the original show will be taken aback at first," says Jennie Garth, returning as Kelly Taylor, now a guidance counselor at West Beverly High and a single mom. Those who remember Kelly's date rape, diet-pill addiction, amnesia, miscarriage, cult membership and house-fire episodes will be glad to know her biggest problem now is finding...
...just generational diversity that separates the new 90210 from the old. In the original, the only nonwhite cast members were extras - black students inexplicably wearing business suits to school and a couple of young Saudi sheiks roaming the quad. In 90210 2.0, Dixon, who is adopted, is African American. Another regular character, Navid Shirazi, is an Iranian-American student played by darkly handsome (though not Iranian) Michael Steger. So far the new show has thankfully avoided a Gabrielle Carteris - that is, an actor over age 30 trying to pass as a high schooler...
...recent months Obama has been publicly silent about one of the gravest tragedies in American history. Perhaps that silence can be attributed to concern about being associated with a catastrophe that was cast in racially polarizing terms. But his silence is a missed opportunity. There is no better platform than New Orleans to execute many of the social-mobility policies Obama has vigorously promoted in other places like rural Pennsylvania, Iowa and Montana. Simply expressing sentiment over New Orleans isn't enough. We have had enough of platitudes. Any Obama statement must reflect a plan for resurrecting New Orleans...
...whether a story that deconstructs French social prejudices to hail the eternal value of culture can seduce readers in the U.S. and Britain. Barbery thinks her book has enjoyed such universal success because people everywhere are worried about superficiality overtaking substance in their lives. She says her cast of "improbable characters and clashing perspectives has managed to interest an equally improbable range of readers from very different backgrounds." It would be a surprise if those who read English proved any less susceptible to this book's charms...
...Beijing. It may have plenty of troubles: a congested city center, topsy-turvy real-estate prices. But lack of confidence is not one of London's problems. The Closing Ceremony's eight-minute preview spot for the upcoming host featured a charming double-decker bus loaded with a small cast of characters that included rocker Jimmy Page. The organizers of London 2012 said they didn't want to compete with the Closing Ceremony's cast of thousands - 7,000 performers, in fact, on top of the 15,000 used in the Opening Ceremony - employed by Chinese director Zhang Yimou...