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...really care anymore. In New Delhi, nothing has changed since I last visited two years ago, right after the “Kargil” war between India and Pakistan. And the rapid Coca-Colanization of India continues: people still flock to movie-theaters to watch Hollywood blockbusters, HBO and CNN pull in as many viewers as the Doordarshan, India’s oldest channel, and McDonald’s milkshakes sell as much as the lassis you’ll get at a local dhaba...
...sharing the wealth this year. Two new shows were nominated for best drama ("24" and "Six Feet Under"), and Michael Chiklis was nominated for his first year on FX's morally ambiguous cop drama (which should have gotten "Law & Order's" drama spot, but who are we kidding?). HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - a screamingly funny comedy of neuroses watched by approximately 15 people outside New York and LA, all of whom will write me angry e-mail for that remark - surprised everyone by getting a best-comedy nod, along with usual suspects...
...fashioned broadcast network with commercials. If the judges decide (as they should) that "The West Wing" slipped too far this year to justify the traditional legacy Emmy, giving the award to freshman drama "24" would be one way to acknowledge innovation without giving the award to HBO, which would probably rend a hole in the fabric of space-time. (It's not a likely outcome; the academy did give the drama award to "The West Wing" in its first season, but that's because the only other plausible alternative back then was "The Sopranos" - another HBO show...
...tragicomedy. Seven Days in May and Seconds painted bleak portraits of an America at war with its best instincts. He sagged personally and professionally after the death of Robert Kennedy, whom he drove to the candidate's rendezvous with an assassin. The director rebounded in the '90s with such HBO films as Andersonville, George Wallace and The Burning Season; he won four Emmys...
That's part of the reason that HBO, which bills itself as the network that makes shows the others can't, picked up The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a sprawling octopus of a story that follows a single drug investigation over 13 episodes. (Later this month Showtime adds Street Time, an earnest but somewhat tone-deaf series about parolees and parole officers.) Creator David Simon says The Wire is "not a cop show" but a series about how the drug trade and the war against it have become institutions that chew up and spit out the people who work...