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Thanks to the new movie version of Charlie's Angels, which opens this week, interest in the three detectives of Charles Townsend Private Investigations has been rekindled. Hoping to cash in, the cable channel TV Land has been airing a lot of old Angels episodes. I hadn't seen one since childhood. So the other day I tuned in, curious to know whether my liberation memories would match up with the actual product, especially now that I have de Beauvoir and Ferraro and riot grrl under my belt. The episode was called Target: Angels. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), Sabrina (Kate Jackson...
...Food Network's gimmicky Iron Chef era, finding a simple cooking program on the channel is becoming as difficult as finding a video on MTV. For that, this high-profile launch is welcome, even if it's as precious and trendy as a truffle-emulsion foam. British superchef/pretty boy Jamie Oliver isn't actually naked--the title refers to his minimalist recipes--but his artfully disheveled, Prada-model looks probably didn't hamper his TV deal. To be fair, this gravy-boat dreamboat is professional and informative. But his languid preening, the jerky handheld camera and the Brit-pop sound...
...MEDIA ARE LIKE A SCHOOL OF FISH When you're watching the Discovery Channel, do you ever wonder how those enormous schools of fish can all magically turn at the same moment, as if they were reading one another's mind? The reason is, they're not looking out at the water, they're looking at one another. That's how the press works too. Journalists spend a lot more time worrying about what other journalists think of their stories than about what readers or viewers might want or need to know. And because reporters tend...
...Mint's website, for instance, customers can order jewelry featuring the golden dollar. The site also includes an illustrated golden coin "road trip" across the country. And last spring, a golden coin documentary entitled "On the Inside: The U.S. Mint" ran on the Discovery Channel...
...that this is not simply because the next generation of intifada-ists who have taken up the stones of their older siblings will be disinclined to accept the old man's leadership. Every popular uprising, after all, has a leadership of its own, which organizes the street confrontations to channel anger for maximum political effect. And what may be most important about the current intifada is that its leaders are, in many cases, the same men who rose to leadership positions on the violent streets of the 1987-1991 uprising - men who may be increasingly reluctant to take orders from...