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...Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like My So-Called Life and Action have found second lives...
...lose the common experience of having watched a few agreed-on classics: as TV becomes more like books, we may find that access to the complete Keats or the complete Alex P. Keaton doesn't mean everyone will check it out. In the days of the three-channel universe, TV professor Thompson could count on students' having seen the same set of familiar shows like Andy Griffith. Now, he says, "I find myself having to put episodes of That Girl on reserve at the library." Anna Karenina, meet Marlo Thomas...
Faced with a virtual cipher at the center of his tale, Irving works energetically to create distractions around the edges. He has some good fun ridiculing Wallingford's employer, calling the all-news outfit "Disaster International" and the "calamity channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...Best Movie Star? No contest. And that's because she is the biggest female box-office draw, even in films that are often of so-so quality. She does best the thing that only movie stars do. By the mysterious force of her public persona, she digs a channel into our most closely guarded yearnings...
...days after the Ikeda murders, another incendiary message appeared on Channel 2. The killer "did an impressive job," the anonymous writer said, adding that he had something even more shocking planned for June 26. Several Channel 2 devotees called the police. Now Japan can only hope that the message is a hoax and that the freewheeling bulletin board won't become Exhibit A again as officials struggle with an increasingly violent society...