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...rent Love Street have been popping up ever since, and while they vary significantly in terms of production values, most do quite well in the ratings. Showtime's Diaries is one of the network's highest-rated programs; the same is true for the French-produced series Emmanuelle on Cinemax...
...this world, women's sexual escapades, no matter how manipulative, never go punished. Cinemax's Emmanuelle, for instance, is an ageless sorceress who spirits herself into the bodies of men and women all over the world (though mostly places like Cannes and Bali) to help them realize their romantic promise. Like most of the women who populate cable erotica, Emmanuelle limns the fantasies and calls the shots. There we have it: sex goddesses Gloria Steinem can love...
Time Warner, the owner of Home Box Office, Cinemax and the nation's second largest cable system, and Turner, which controls CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network and TBS, remain publicly confident that the deal will ultimately be approved. If the commission should require either the sale of certain Time Warner or Turner assets or other major changes in the deal, then the merger could be in trouble--in no small part because Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator and an important Turner shareholder, retains the right to veto any changes it deems not in its own interests...
...Seminar's publications, has inevitably contributed to the issue's achieving a sort of pop-culture critical mass. Christological chatter pervades even the Internet, and dozens of other volumes on the search for Jesus are either just published or in the works. This week the cable channel Cinemax 2 will be running a program called The Gospel According to Jesus, which features celebrities and ordinary people reciting from a custom-tailored Bible. It is based on Scripture assembled by author Stephen Mitchell, who deleted many of Jesus' sayings and most of the events in his life, noting...
Kids, not surprisingly, have been among the most enthusiastic. "I like the music channels, the Disney Channel, HBO and Cinemax," says 11-year-old Brynn Dziewiatowski. "I watch twice as much TV as I did before." Isabelle Moren, 74, who is homebound because of emphysema, is just as big a fan, particularly of the Discovery Channel: "I like all that scenery, and it's educational." Town councilman Ed Hotaling, 42, who runs a florist shop, thinks the new TV offerings are "just great. At least it's something to see from the outside world. I used...