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...schedule even though its summer run hasn't even premiered yet. It depends on Fox finding a way to recreate the success of "Joe Millionaire" (Mondays at 8 E.T. next fall), even though we all now know the original gimmick. (Berman said the network has a "secret plan," a la Nixon with Vietnam, to add a new twist...
When Bernadine Rivera and Kevin Campion get married next spring, they won't do it in Lomita, Calif., where she lives, or in nearby La Mirada, where he lives. They'll do it in Paris before a dozen friends and family members. Rivera, 46, and Campion, 47, plan to exchange vows in one of the city's historic churches (for legal reasons, they will first have a quick ceremony Stateside) and take their guests to dinner at a three-star restaurant before embarking on a European honeymoon. "What could be more romantic than a wedding in Paris!" says Rivera...
...themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs, making possible the cheap, high-quality, a la carte copying of movies. This information became, shall we say, fairly popular on the Internet, earning Johansen, who was 15 at the time, the nickname "DVD Jon." In 2000 Norwegian prosecutors, egged on by the M.P.A.A., charged him with violating digital-security laws. In January the verdict came in: Johansen...
Perhaps most creepily sunny of all is NBC's America's Most Talented Kid, which often plays like JonBenet: The Series, as when a 5-year-old girl performs a coquettish version of Swingin' on a Star, shaking her hips and interjecting "Ooh la la!" Child-pageant culture has long been with us, but--like marriage between cousins--it rarely bursts so prominently into the mainstream. And yet there is something fascinating about this raw display of kids' and/or their parents' preternatural ambition: 10-year-old Brityn Martin, for instance, performed a high-impact dance routine with a hairline fracture...
Much of this, of course, has to do with stars. Man of La Mancha got a lavish new production this season largely to give Brian Stokes Mitchell a role worthy of his baritone. Gypsy, last revived in 1989 with Tyne Daly, is about to return once again, primarily so that leading Broadway baby Bernadette Peters can continue to have gainful employment. Expect some critical carping about whether she's right for the brassy role of Mama Rose--but is there a more risk-free idea on all of Broadway...