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...wireless, online and other new media." The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, for instance, has an "embedded" writer-producer whose job is to focus on the best bits for nonbroadcast platforms. In dramas, Law & Order producer Wolf envisions shooting more close-ups to accommodate smaller screens, as well as edgier scenes that might help sell downloads but wouldn't get past the networks' censors...
...only vaguely spiritual. The God who spoke to Joan of Arcadia was carefully nondenominational. The WB's genial 7th Heaven, about a minister and his family, has been the network's highest-rated show for most of its 10-season run but has never got the hype of edgier shows like Everwood. Asks creator Brenda Hampton: "How do you promote, 'This week, Ruthie respects her parents...
Named after a measure of time, Fifteen Minutes—or FM as it’s more commonly known—is the edgier and slightly retarded stepchild of the revered Crimson, a newspaper that makes the Wall Street Journal read like literotica.com. Thankfully, FM is not quite as boring; indeed, it’s a bit like a similarly named magazine called FHM, minus the boobs and stories about dudes who get blackout and make outrageous bets that usually involve one of them getting breast implants...
...Fire is the first of the movies to deal explicitly with sexual tension between the characters, especially Ron and Hermione. It's also the first movie in which a major (all right, sort of major) character dies. Newell, the series' third director, has crafted the movie to reflect the edgier, scarier material: "It's very, very dark and sort of a classic thriller," he says...
That film, Kilmer believes, could be the start of his new business model. He has talked to Downey about teaming up on more comedies, like an edgier Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. "I knew Tom Hanks. We were starting in comedies around the same time," he says, sipping his tea at the bar at the Hotel Bel-Air and recalling his mid-'80s roles in Top Secret! and Real Genius. "Tom Hanks was very smart. He made several of the same kind of films in a row. Sweet films: Big, Sleepless in Seattle. So you thought...