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Instead, much of feminism has devolved into the silly. And it has powerful support for this: a popular culture insistent on offering images of grown single women as frazzled, self-absorbed girls. Ally McBeal is the most popular female character on television. The show, for the few who may have missed it, focuses on a ditsy 28-year-old Ivy League Boston litigator who never seems in need of the body-concealing clothing that Northeastern weather often requires. Ally spends much of her time fantasizing about her ex-boyfriend, who is married and in the next office, and manages...
...Ally McBeal character were not enough, America is discovering another, the heroine of an enormously hyped novel called Bridget Jones's Diary, by British author Helen Fielding. The book, a best seller in England for months, is a sometimes funny but ultimately monotonous chronicle of a year in the life of an unmarried thirtysomething London editor whose thoughts never veer far from dating, the cocktail hour and her invariably failed attempts at calorie cutting. A typical Bridget reflection: "Cannot face thought of going to work. Only thing that makes it tolerable is thought of seeing Daniel again, but even this...
...still have to sell the film. Godzilla went with size, plastering hints about its star's dimensions on 8,000 outdoor displays. Others try niche marketing. In ads on Ally McBeal, Armageddon peddles itself as a love story, with kissy spots featuring Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. The idea is to attract Hollywood's hot new demographic, young females--the segment PaineWebber analyst Christopher Dixon calls "the new bobby-soxers...
Hollywood is busy right now, as the networks scramble to put together their fall schedules and wrestle with such weighty problems as which show will get Seinfeld's time slot and how quickly they can clone Ally McBeal. This spring, however, the most intriguing moves are being contemplated at the network news divisions. The result could be a big step on the road to a long dreamed of, but never realized, goal: a network newscast in the lucrative, heavily viewed hours of prime time...
...heroine, whom she likens to Ally McBeal, is Veronica ("Call Me Nikki") Chase, a flirtatious economics professor who knows how to make Adam Smith go down easy. Chase ghost-writes articles for the Times, crunches numbers for a prestigious campus committee and still finds time to swoon over her dishy ex, Dante. But she wields her entitlement with refreshing honesty, describing herself as a light-skinned "bourgeoisie" black who "had grown up and gone to white schools and didn't believe in unduly upsetting white people...