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...years on Saturday Night Live, Dennis Miller came across as a smug, overage frat boy. Now, sporting a full beard and a fresh dose of righteous zeal, he's the angry prophet of the airwaves -- Howard Beale with a bottle of Evian. On his new late-night HBO show, Miller delivers well-tuned rants on topics like the cult of celebrity. "Michael Jackson," he fumes, "one of the five weirdest people on the planet earth -- and the other four are his brothers. And while we're on the subject, why do I even know Tito Jackson's name, for Christ...
Miller's show, which is in the midst of a six-week run on HBO (and will return later this year), has had a few rocky moments but many more stimulating ones. He opens each half-hour with quips about the week's news, then brings on a guest to discuss a specially chosen topic: Senator Bill Bradley on crime, say. As in his short-lived 1992 talk show, Miller brings more to interviews than just his cue cards. "I admire you as a politician," he told Bradley, "for the same reason I admired you in the N.B.A.: you seem...
...even if they survive appeals by cable companies, the new regulations will have only a limited effect. Rates will drop for basic cable service and expanded cable service, but not for premium services like HBO, Showtime and Pay-Per-View...
...long-deferred film of his AIDS play The Normal Heart. Robert Altman will direct the Angels in America film. The independent Propaganda Films is developing two projects: Good Days, a gay coming-of-age story from John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday); and, with Oliver Stone and HBO, an adaptation of Conduct Unbecoming by Randy Shilts (And the Band Played On). "Nothing takes the taboo off of anything in Hollywood like box office," says Propaganda's boss Steve Golin. "These guys'll make anything they think will make money...
...Cycle on Broadway. The $2.5 million production, one of the costliest plays ever, closed last week after only 34 performances. Hobbled by mixed reviews, the purse- straining (top price: $100), butt-busting (two parts, six hours) epic never found an audience. But Robert Schenkkan's drama still has life: HBO has bought the rights and will do a TV version...