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...District (CBS, 10 p.m.) Damn, can that Craig T. Nelson yell! Starring as a Great White Hope police commissioner sent to clean up Washington, D.C., Nelson displays a set of pipes barely hinted at in his years on "Coach," spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery. ?No, YOU hold on!," he screams at an incompetent police underling, one of several shiftless African Americans depicted in a cornball, overwritten drama with truly creepy racial politics. "Can you tell me WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS CITY!?!? Um, how about an uninspiring lead using...
...other by invoking Ryan, the current poster boy of scandal in a state where questionable patronage practices have rarely before been a political liability. Blagojevich uses old footage of Topinka, a former member of the Ryan administration, practically swooning as she praises the former governor as "a damn decent guy." Topinka, who has never been implicated as a participant in Ryan's patronage schemes, counters with references to recent revelations of a $1,500 "birthday gift" to Blagojevich's then seven-year-old daughter from a friend whose wife had just received a state job. "Isn't our last governor...
...Diesel makes a damn good cup of coffee,” said a barista at the spacious Starbucks across the street. She leaned forward and gave me a conspiratorial look...
...these hypotheticals become so over the top that the video becomes entertaining through sheer effort. Why not stick the band on a float, followed by a bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there’s any confusion? Why not ramp up the drama by making it black and white except for splashes of red, and topping the whole thing off with snow? Why not give...
...influential” they were.But Os Mutantes transcended any of that crap. They’re all middle-aged Brazilians who made a revolution in sound forty years ago when they combined Anglo-American psych-rock guitars with distinctly South American tropicalia. They’re too damn happy and wise for pretension.And boy howdy, could they rock a groove.It’s interesting—when they were young bucks in the ’60s, they made a conscious effort to be as wild and new as they possibly could, but now, with age, they seem...