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Radiohead has changed its sound on every album since its debut, never allowing itself to sound stale, never allowing its music to wither. At first, the group followed trends, echoing the roar of Seattle on its tentative debut album Pablo Honey (1993) and mastering the genre on the more assertive The Bends (1995). On its critically acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997), Radiohead began to write its own rules, creating rock mini-suites like Paranoid Android and writing lyrics that captured the numbing ambivalence that many people feel about living in a microprocessed age. On Kid A, another Radiohead emerges...
...decision not to broadcast the first presidential debates. While CBS and ABC will show the 90-minute Bush-Gore slugfest in all its (potentially tedious) glory, the naughtier networks have bowed to the allure of ratings, offering a premiere of James Cameron's slinky "Dark Angel" and the debut game of the baseball playoffs...
...could conceivably make a film this bad. I don't care how much money you have to waste, and I especially don't care that you have people like Minnie Driver and Bridget Wilson willing to flaunt their cleavages for the camera. Sally Field, in her directorial debut, has failed miserably. Sprinkled liberally with all the worst clichŽs possible, Beautiful, no question about it, is a horrendously ugly film...
...Urbania benefits greatly from its director and stars, who anchor the film to a brooding thoughtfulness that could easily have been abandoned in less ambitious hands. In his directorial debut, Shear demonstrates a talent for innovative storytelling, weaving together scenes that both explain and add to Charlie's emotional turmoil. Futterman, who's probably best known as Robin Williams' straight son in The Birdcage, displays great versatility in examining the emptiness and rage from which Charlie seeks to free himself...
...last suggestion, not for NBC but its competitors: Don't wait until after the Olympics to debut your new fall shows. If NBC doesn't learn anything from this year's experience, then trust me - people will watch them, gratefully...