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...viewers to the journalism. On the other hand, the approach is sure to draw people who might otherwise not watch a newsmagazine show. "We may use some of the same technical tools that Miami Vice does," says Lack. "But there is no blurring of the line between reality and fiction. The cops on our show will not be wearing Armani jackets or driving Ferraris...
...pageants in the country. The aides to powerful public figures take the place of the wives of these workaholics. "After all," says McLellan, "they see their aides more often, and the aides are more obedient than the wives." Now for her novel. It's hard to see, though, how fiction can top true life...
...present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance. By the customary criteria applied to genre fiction--the number of active practitioners whose works have graduated to mainstream best-seller lists or to critical appraisal as "serious" literature--the mystery can offer only Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald and perhaps Julian Symons. Dozens of purported successors to Christie have been proclaimed, largely on the basis of gender, but none has sustained anything like her productivity or cunning. Every publishing season brings a promising debut, but the vast majority of these writers never again produce a book with the freshness...
However, it would seem that Duchovny lacks not writing skill, but rather imagination; while his writing can evoke atmosphere, event and emotion that he himself ostensibly experienced, actual fiction escapes him. Perhaps “House of D” would have been a better movie had Tommy Warshaw, instead of running off to become an artist in Paris, grown up to play the lead in “The X-Files...
...before a risky leap forward. Six months in the studio last summer and fall have produced something as welcome as it is unexpected: an Of Montreal that knows how to cut loose and get down convincingly, deploying a fleet of gleefully programmed sounds that would have been pure science fiction to sandbox-era Brian Wilson...