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Some advertisers quailed, but viewers responded--3.6 million a week, by far the most in the little-watched network's history--and FX stood only to gain from taking the chance. That extended to the content: frontal nudity, extreme violence and, instead of the standard TV euphemisms, nearly every curse word short of the big F. "Whenever I hear somebody on a cop show say, 'Get on the ground, dirtbag,' I think, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, I'm an adult,'" says Chiklis. More important, The Shield did what network cop shows have lately abandoned: it created a richly imagined...
...what is really winning Lieberman cheers among dispirited party activists is his new assertiveness in Washington. While other Democrats have been exercising caution in speaking against the policies of a popular President, Lieberman has launched a frontal assault. Last week he called for delaying major portions of the Bush tax cut (prominent Democrats like Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt have criticized the tax cut but stopped short of taking action against it). The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which Lieberman chairs, issued the first congressional subpoenas to the Bush Administration, demanding records about its Enron dealings. Lieberman critics say the move...
...Full Frontal (Aug. 2): Director Steven Soderbergh’s latest foray into the mosaic-of-L.A.-life genre has been described as a thematic follow-up to Soderbergh’s first (and still best) film sex, lies, and videotape. Considering his last three films have grossed a combined $433 million domestically, his track record has secured him a place atop Hollywood’s A-list; odd then, that apart from Julia Roberts and David Duchovny, Soderbergh has recruited a stable of B-list talent to star in his latest film (Catherine Keener, David Hyde Pierce...
...French sensation Amelie at script stage for $1 million and watching it gross $31 million in the U.S.? Should Harvey really "admit defeat" after Miramax received 15 Academy Award nominations, the most of any studio? And isn't the impressive upcoming Miramax slate, which includes Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, sufficient proof that Harvey in fact has not "lost his way"? MATTHEW HILTZIK, VICE PRESIDENT Corporate Communications Miramax Films New York City...
...FULL FRONTAL Mammograms are notorious both for recording false positives and for not spotting real tumors. Now a study shows that detection can be dramatically improved with one simple step: correctly positioning the breast. The position in the device, it turns out, is even more important than sharpness of the image...