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...program drawing the most scrutiny is NYPD Blue; it is an admitted effort by Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, to do network TV's first R-rated series. The pilot episode contains a steamy sex scene with rear nudity, relatively rough language ("You pissy little bitch"), and some strong violence. In the face of affiliate discomfort -- roughly a third of ABC station executives polled at a recent network meeting said they might not run the show -- Bochco said he would consider making some changes: "I'm trying to be sensitive to the concerns without compromising the show...
Saturday Night Live stars present and past make appearances. Jan Hooks plays a vamp with designs on Beldar. Phil Hartman is Marlax, a family friend back on Remulak. SNI creator Lorne Michaels is the producer here...
THEATER Was it worth making Sunset Boulevard into a musical? CINEMA The creator of Boys N the Hood flops this time. TELEVISION Chantilly Lace is sisterhood in action (men, beware). MUSIC Tony! Toni! Tone! updates sweet '60s soul. BOOKS A memoir of sexism and racism at the Washington Post. Honor Among Thieves is a plodding (non)thriller...
...enforcement officials in Los Angeles launched an assault on white supremacists, arresting eight people, including one adult and one unnamed juvenile who were implicated in the plot. Authorities said the suspects were affiliated with three white-power groups: Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the Church of the Creator, and a relatively new group called the Fourth Reich Skinheads. Among those taken into custody were Christian Gilbert Nadal, 35, a flight engineer for Continental Airlines and his wife Doris, 41, a real estate agent. Most of the suspects were slapped with various federal weapons charges, but Christopher David Fisher...
...whose investigation began 18 months ago, planted an undercover agent inside the white-supremacist community; one of their civilian informants even posed as a minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members...