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...femme fatale tomb raider (who moonlights as a scientist by night) joins forces with the quest’s leader in search of an ancient crystal skull once owned by Hitler that can revolutionize molecular science...
...gone on record to ask that Pappin retract his statements, nor have we criticized The Crimson for printing Pappin’s letter (Op-ed, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality”, Dec. 9). It is irresponsible for Smith to make this position anything other than crystal-clear...
...gangster drama, Kingpin (Sundays and Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T., debuting Feb. 2), takes a lot of supposed risks: its depiction of drug use, its heavy violence and its protagonist, a Mexican crime lord shipping coke and crystal meth to American kids. But its greatest liability may be today's yes-you-can-do-that-on-TV culture. In the wake of R-rated, critically acclaimed and successful cable shows like HBO's The Sopranos and FX's The Shield, network TV has found audiences increasingly blase about sex and violence. This season Jack Bauer killed and decapitated a prisoner...
...dramas like Six Feet Under, for instance, characters talk around their feelings and leave you to infer their real meaning, like people in good novels (and real life). On most network dramas, people talk like they do, well, on TV: they say exactly what they're thinking and have crystal-clear motives. Swear words and skin rarely cost viewers or ad revenue anymore, but complex stories and strong points of view are polarizing. Love-'em-or-hate-'em shows fit HBO's business model: the gleefully misanthropic Curb Your Enthusiasm is a hit for HBO because a few million people...
...Liberals tried. They gave money. They watched boring news specials. They held hands all the way across America. They even pretended to laugh at sketches with Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. But at some point in every one-way relationship, pity turns to resentment, and now even the liberals are turning on the homeless: San Francisco has voted to reduce their benefits 85%; Santa Monica, Calif., passed laws preventing them from sleeping in the doors of shops or receiving food from unlicensed providers; Madison, Wis., is handing them a record number of tickets; Seattle banned the sale...