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...HBO'S SUNDAY NIGHT Some of its efforts were mixed (Band of Brothers) or complete misses (The Mind of the Married Man). But with strong additions Six Feet Under and Project Greenlight, returning stalwarts Oz, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Emmy-winning Sex and the City and an utterly transcendent third season of The Sopranos, the cable network laid claim to the true must-see--albeit must-pay-to-see--night...
...CONSPIRACY (HBO) In a year of high-profile Holocaust dramas (ABC's Anne Frank, NBC's Uprising), an understated movie about a meeting in which Hitler's lieutenants planned the Final Solution outdid them all. Not a shot was fired, but the cool bureaucratese with which these officials rationalized mass murder showed how language can be humankind's most insidious weapon...
...defense continues its case. Like Brooks, he faces up to three years in prison and fines of $350,000. And if the courtroom scrapping sounds good enough to be on TV, rest assured it soon will be. Sigourney Weaver has already been cast to play Brooks in an upcoming HBO movie...
...lionized the individual. Even the dark drama Six Feet Under features a gay character finding solace in, of all uncool places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose (be careful what you wish for) all into one trendlet...
Some have feared that the paper’s independent midwestern spirit (it was started in Wisconsin) would die when its founders moved it to New York, signed film deals and reportedly discussed TV deals with HBO...