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There are currently 10 soaps on daytime TV, but a successful one has not been launched since CBS's debut of The Bold and the Beautiful in 1987. It might be considered an act of courage, then, that NBC, home of Sunset Beach, the lowest-rated soap on television, this week unleashes a lavish daytime drama, Passions. But soaps continue to be made and broadcast because, when all is said and done, they continue to generate a good deal of money--$50 million to $60 million a year for a successful one. NBC's new hour-long series, centered...
...wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers and the wolf lovers and all the lovely birders. Here's to the citizens who organize the parades and the beauticians who volunteer to do the ladies' hair at the old folks' home. Here's to the people who make a lot of pickle relish and give some to their neighbors. Here's to the blue-haired ladies who put rhinestone collars on their miniature poodles and all the kids who wear their baseball hats on backwards. Here's to the break dancers...
Almost uniquely among genuine rockers, Bruce Springsteen has created a body of work that has matured with its audience. Characters once "born to run" now search for a place to call home and a community with which to share it. In Springsteen's concerts, joyful abandon is now tempered with rueful regret. And like the songs' subjects, fans who once dreamed of escaping their parents, phys-ed teachers and "towns full of losers" worry about the kind of world they will be leaving their children...
...oldies review. Each European concert featured a few choice tidbits from Tracks, the four-CD retrospective of previously unreleased material that Springsteen finally decided to give his fans in honor of his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year. The band sent the Berlin crowd home with a new gospel-tinged song called Land of Hopes and Dreams: "Well I will provide for you and I will stand by your side/You'll need a good companion darlin' for this part of the ride." Just before leaving for Europe, the band premiered the song in Asbury Park...
...extra letter tacked onto the icon: V (for violence), S (sexual situations), L (crude language) and D (suggestive dialogue). FV stands not for family viewing, as I assumed, but for "fantasy violence." Used with these ratings, the V chip could be helpful to parents who aren't always home when their kids watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their own producers, which is something akin to letting...