Word: made-for-tv
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...refreshing to escape briefly into the world of Jamie Sale and David Pelletier and their quest for the gold medal [WINTER OLYMPICS, Feb. 25]. Their venture had everything: a talented, attractive pair of figure skaters reaching for their dream, an obstacle to it and finally (like the made-for-TV movie that will surely come) a storybook happy ending. I know they had a few difficult days, but their tale of triumph overcoming adversity was like a minivacation for this American's battered psyche. LINDA COURTEMANCHE Royersford...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV drama. The star is an aging German tycoon, known for his obsessive secrecy, unbridled ambition and friends in high places - one of whom even has a shot at becoming Chancellor. Using a keen understanding of the public taste and an enormous appetite for risk taking, our hero builds a multibillion-dollar media empire, comprising TV stations, newspapers and rights to a library of cinema classics and sports events...
...white-collar crime spree--buying a $7,000 belt buckle, spending $30,000 on a London jaunt and missing her flight home in the process, jiggering her expense account and pawning her purchases in an attempt to hide her splurges--might and probably will provide fodder for a made-for-TV movie. And the ending will be, as demanded by the genre, upbeat. The employer Roach cheated paid her $150,000 a year. She now has a similar consulting job with another company and earns...
...typical TV movie might have shown the match reverently as an Important Social Moment. But Anderson--whose Cheerleader was a pitch-perfect rendering of a modern tabloid circus--also captures the made-for-TV ridiculousness of its buildup, from Riggs' shilling for Sugar Daddy caramel pops to the opponents' theatrical, Muhammad Ali-esque bouts of insult and braggadocio. For these outsize personalities, the sideshow was the show. "Billie has often spoken of tennis as entertainment as well as a sport," says Holly Hunter, who plays King and starred in Cheerleader. "That aspect of the story was really well served...
...before we continue with our made-for-TV melodrama, it may behoove us to take a step back, and use the time during which we are waiting for election results to be finally determined to take a close hard look at how we have conducted ourselves in the United States in the last few days, with our claims of "foul play" and "election mismanagement." Before we continue to chastise one another for being "obstructive of the will of the people," and for claiming that each party has "made a mockery of our fair election laws," we should pray for those...