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TIME: SEPT. 11, 8 P.M. EDT (DEBUT), HBO...
TIME: JULY 10, 11 (DEBUT), HBO...
...from prime time, and the few recent offerings have been too distracted by other matters -- skewering small-town life in Picket Fences; cheerleading for the rights of autistic children in Life Goes On -- to pay much attention to the way families really interrelate. In this context, Laurel Avenue, an HBO mini-series airing in two 90-minute segments this month, is almost a breakthrough...
...minor public figure as a result of his role in the trial. He published Quiet Neighbors, a book about Nazis living in America, spoke frequently on the issue and even played prose cutor in a mock trial of Austrian president and former Nazi Kurt Waldheim on cable super-station HBO...
...mainstream, a funny autodeconstruction that in the past decade has moved from European literature (Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), to West End theater (Michael Frayn's Noises Off), to quality American pop: it is at the core of The Larry Sanders Show on HBO, MTV's Beavis and Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello...