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...Serbs showed "Wag the Dog" when the bombing began, and now Belgrade is venturing into creating its own made-for-TV events. The Yugoslav army staged a tiny "troop withdrawal" Thursday, moving about 120 soldiers out of Kosovo before assembled Western reporters at a border post. A senior officer then spun the reporters the line that the only thing slowing Yugoslav withdrawal was NATO's continued bombing. It was a lame stunt, but it pointed to the key obstacle to a Russian-mediated peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO...
...after about 11 weeks with Cunanan's suicide on a Miami Beach houseboat. Sifting through pretty much the same facts, author Indiana strives for an entertaining, novelistic pastiche, overwhelming his account with imagined internal monologues, breathless sentences, dubious speculation and surmise, from mild to wild. His is a made-for-TV movie that nobody should want to watch...
There is little of prurient interest. Starr has scrubbed out the sex, offering a PG-rated, made-for-TV version. There are no fireworks, little crankiness and none of the verbal slips you might expect after 12 hours of testimony. Hardened attorneys don't crack. Starr is eerily Clintonian at times. He hides behind his "professional staff," and when confronted with the charge that he'd intimidated a witness by questioning the legitimacy of her long-ago adoption of a Romanian orphan, he shifts responsibility to them, saying, "I don't go with my FBI agents on every single interview...
DIED. JOSEPH CATES, 74, Emmy-winning TV impresario who helped create the The $64,000 Question and worked on more than 1,000 made-for-TV specials; in New York City...
...merely the composer of The Threepenny Opera, Weill in his short life produced a large body of music that fuses opera, jazz, musical theater and cabaret. Through Dec. 3, New York City's Museum of Television & Radio is screening a cornucopia of performance tapes, including rarely seen made-for-TV versions of his ballet-opera hybrid The Seven Deadly Sins, his Broadway musical Lady in the Dark and his American folk opera Down in the Valley. A TV bio, interviews and an eye-popping array of musical clips complete a rich portrait of a unique artist...