Word: made-for-tv
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...able to judge The Reagans fairly - as if anyone really wants to - until it airs next year on Showtime, CBS's pay-cable corporate sibling. But we don't generally look to made-for-TV mini-series for ungilded truth. Remember, if not for scurrilous, insensitive, sensationalized TV movies about the (liberal, Democrat) Kennedys, we would have to clone five Michael Jacksons to fill the holes in the sweeps-stunt calendar. If Americans were going to depend on The Reagans as a history lesson - rather than as a campy Washington version of I Love the 80s - the Republic is doomed...
...Though Shah chronicles appalling scenes?three sisters are forced to watch the murder of their mother by the Taliban?they are pared down to a made-for-TV pathos that is too easy to shrug off. In contrast, Seierstad's women, victimized by a tyrannical system that has changed little since the fall of the Taliban, are complex and disturbingly unforgettable. Neither Seierstad's closed world of the Khan household nor Shah's war-rent Afghanistan make for comfortable reading, but both books offer a rare glimpse of life beneath the burqa in a land that is too often portrayed...
...Mark Mazzoleni were an SEC football coach, he would’ve appeared with his family at a neatly-organized press conference this summer, enjoyed a made-for-TV handshake with the athletic director and smiled in front of a dozen microphones. He would’ve told the hundred or so people assembled in a thick-aired room that this was, without a doubt, the place...
...show seemed caught in its title’s own conundrum, one part serious intellectual debate, the other part made-for-TV testimony...
...Kitagawa) because, as she explains, "I got so busy that the only way we could spend time together was to get married." It took her nearly three years to finish her first drama, a sci-fi adventure, which was bought for less than $500 and turned into a made-for-TV movie that attracted little notice. Her next try, Just the Way You Are, was her breakthrough, capturing 32% of all viewing households. She has since penned Long Vacation, a touchstone for anyone studying Japanese, and Beautiful Life, Japan's most watched TV drama of all time. (It was proving...