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...massive volume that examined post-war levels of consumption and their detrimental effects on society. Government Professor Robert D. Putnam cites pop culture vehicles like television and the Internet as reasons why the fabric of community in America has unwoven. Former economics and women’s studies professor Juliet Schor offered a popular class titled “Shop ’til You Drop.” An English tutorial close reads Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City, while the African American Studies department offers courses in hip-hop, and English 178x...
...Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at juliet_chung@post.harvard.edu...
...matchmaker. UPN's The Mullets--about a pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas: Skin, a Romeo-and-Juliet romance between the daughter of a porn czar and the son of a D.A.; The Ortegas, a sitcom about a family that produces a talk show--recorded live on tape with real celebrities--in its home; Still Life, a family drama narrated by the dead son; and Cracking Up, a dark...
...however, place a lot more emphasis on comedies and dramas in the schedule announcement. On the drama side, "Skin," from ubiquitous producer Jerry Bruckheimer, seems to have the elements one needs for success in TV, or, really, in life: love, conflict and porn. In this self-styled Romeo-and-Juliet story, the son of a district attorney falls in love with the daughter of the adult-entertainment czar his dad is prosecuting. "Wonderfalls," like CBS's "Joan of Arcadia," is about a young woman receiving mysterious messages, except that instead of having God talk to her, she chats with inanimate...
...hugely popular in the North. Before she fled North Korea to China in early March, Park Sun Hee (not her real name) had seen all the latest South Korean soaps. She says she once rigged a line to a factory to steal electricity and watched the hit soap Juliet's Man until dawn. "I was very happy," she says. "It was a very revolutionary thing for me to stay up all night watching movies." That's exactly what scares the Party. The document warns that if nothing is done, "Socialism is going to crumble like a mud wall soaked...