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...when it comes to Reality TV, "Survivor" is still king. What is it about this show? There's the high-school-flashback factor, getting to watch alliances form and shift and disintegrate according to social winds none of us have ever fully understood. There's the simple lure of schadenfreude, getting to cackle on the couch as 16 Real, Ordinary People are stranded far from civilization and have to scratch, claw and starve their way to 15 runners-up and one winner. (And there's the "bah" factor. "Bah," we say. "Can't these people even catch a fish...
...final question is this: Is the simple life just a passing fancy, a stylish flashback of the 1960s? Not so, say people who have studied both eras. Contends Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah: ''It's no longer messianic, the way it was in the '60s, but relatively pragmatic. That may give the present mood a greater staying power.'' That's good, because the American generation now reaching middle age has a lot of promises to keep - not to mention mortgages to carry, tuition to pay and lawns to mow. No wonder they want to keep it simple...
...Western alliance holds no brief for the Albanian separatists, but their provocation of Belgrade could paint NATO into a nasty corner. The spectacle of refugees fleeing as Serb armor descends on their villages to flush out the guerrillas would be an uncomfortable flashback to last year's ethnic cleansing. And yet the only way to prevent that may be to move more forcefully against the Albanian separatists who'd fought alongside the West last time around, which could provoke a dangerous showdown between NATO and the former KLA throughout Kosovo. Even if NATO and Belgrade find a way of resolving...
...truly odd affair that, like "Gun Crazy" unfolds with dream-logic. The unforgettable opening, for instance, finds Sterling Hayden striding valiantly toward a classically styled showdown - toting a harpoon on his shoulder. An unseen gunfighter mocks him for his choice of weapon, and the movie proceeds, in one long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work. You see, there's this one oblique view of the town's main street and a big wagon wheel is prominently...
That said, this is the one fall series most likely to inspire you to buy a big-screen television. The two-hour pilot explodes with a flashback to Max's escape from a government compound in a high-volume snowmobile chase. The script is mixed: the slang can be forced, the attempts at Buffy-esque humor sometimes fall flat. But it yields up one stunning visual after another--Max perched atop a decrepit Space Needle; nine-year-old Max holding her breath under a frozen lake; Max coolly wheeling Logan down a hospital corridor as an explosion silhouettes her from...