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...film has revealed a previously existent American fascination with Christian mysticism. In the last twelve months, Touched by an Angel won an Emmy, the HBO Adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America received a record number of Golden Globes, Christian rock group Evanescence won several Grammys and the The Da Vinci Code, a novel about alternative gospels, topped best seller lists...
...committee is also considering creating additional student recreation space with comfortable furniture and a large-screen television featuring HBO, among other amenities...
...psychological exploration must continue! Stay, I told my lady friends, and discover as much about my psyche as I have ascertained of yours! Premium cable will be our saving grace, a glorious vehicle of mutual understanding. Gender disparities and romantic befuddlement will melt away in the face of HBO original programming...
...Sopranos' comedy is inseparable from its drama, as in the exemplary third episode, in which patriarch "Uncle Junior" (Dominic Chianese) begins showing signs of senility--after faking it to avoid jail. Watching TV, he lands on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and looks uneasily at the similarly bald, skinny Larry David. "What the f___?" he asks. "Why am I on there?" (Imagine if HBO had been airing The Sopranos.) Chianese is just one example of the show's bench strength, and he gives his best performance yet as he drives to Newark and gets lost looking for his long-dead...
...playful story given that it is based on its author's near death. ABC has played up the comparisons between Kingdom Hospital and David Lynch's Twin Peaks, though Kingdom isn't as arty, original or elliptical. But like Peaks, it is funny, which is no small feat (compare HBO's smart but painfully self-serious Carnivale). Some of the best scenes seem thrown in simply because they amused King--for instance, a dig at reality TV in which we see the stoner who hit Rickman, at home, racked with guilt, watching a game show in which losing contestants...