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...characters in prime time (depending on how you count and categorize them). Most are post-Ellen additions, and they are no longer limited to bit roles and punch lines (though TNT dropped a stereotypically gay "character" from World Championship Wrestling after receiving complaints about gay bashing). ABC's Oh Grow Up and Wasteland feature gay leads with actual, if tentative, love lives (Ford, a lawyer who's just left his marriage, and Russell, a closeted soap actor). Action has two gay regulars; one is Bobby G., a ruthless studio head whose massive male endowment symbolizes his show-biz power...
...pressure to do so. One factor is that while coming out is still daunting to actors, there are a number of openly gay TV writers and producers, including Wasteland's Kevin Williamson (who worked a regular character's coming-out story line into Dawson's Creek last season), Oh Grow Up's Alan Ball and W&G's co-creator and co-executive producer Max Mutchnick. In addition, the pioneering DeGeneres is developing a show for CBS. The network says it's unknown whether she'll play a gay character but contends she's free...
Mutchnick, Ball and Williamson are mum on how much of their characters' love lives audiences will see this season, and network execs' willingness to show air kisses among actual gay characters is vague and jittery at best. Weirdly, both Wasteland and Oh Grow Up have sent their gay men on dates with men who turned out to be straight. Williamson says Russell will have an active love life, but Ball and Mutchnick say they're not that interested in entering the bedrooms of their straight or gay characters. True, that's convenient. But in a sense, to focus...
First the CAT scan picks up suspicious-looking lesions in the lungs. Then a radiologist determines whether those nodules warrant further investigation. Most of the time, that means waiting a couple of weeks or months to see if they grow (only 1 out of 10 lesions is cancerous). Sometimes it means undergoing a biopsy. "We found that people were willing to wait," Henschke says, in order to avoid potential complications from unnecessary surgery. The still experimental scan costs $300 and is so far available only in New York City, Rochester, Minn., and Tampa, Fla. But if it becomes the next...
...younger (a much more problematic thing from the point of view of theoretical physics). Even at that age I instinctively disliked exchanging the vastness of the possible for the narrowness of the concrete. I wanted to remain forever at an age when I could still believe that I might grow up to be a professor, a firefighter, a musician or a carpenter. Furthermore, the scatological humor, casual cruelty and intellectual indifference of my own peers troubled...