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THURSDAY THE U.S.S. INTREPID Creepiest thing I've seen all week: someone in a Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over...
...trouble getting parts other than the perp, the victim or that newly resurgent figure, the maid/nanny. (A rare exception was Esai Morales, recently added to NYPD Blue as Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez.) In the Latino actors' community, the scarcity of roles makes casting "like throwing meat to hungry dogs," says Lisa Vidal, who co-stars as a cop on Lifetime's police drama The Division. "Most of us don't want to play only the victim or the accused roles, but we have to pay the rent...
...that prefers to target itself to families. But the L.A. Sparks are finally turning the light on that part of their fan base. The change began May 4, when Girl Bar, a lesbian dance club, held a preseason pep rally. Members lined up to meet players (but not star Lisa Leslie, who apparently had a prior engagement) and buy season tickets. The partnership will continue June 5, after the Sparks' first home game, when players will attend a cocktail party with Girl Bar members; the Sparks' June 14 game is designated "Gay Pride Kick-Off," also in connection with Girl...
...Lisa McLaughlin
...being catty. After the somewhat shamefaced presentations of NBC and ABC, here finally was a major network with something to really be happy about. Thanks to "Survivor," the network has not only handed Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow's butts to them, but it's become, in the repeated words of the execs on stage at Carnegie Hall, "younger and more affluent." In other words, more successful by the same standards that, a couple years ago, the network with the oldest audience in network TV said were bogus and unfair. Back then, at the home of Dick Van Dyke...