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...sending to its intended audience. It’s not so complicated, actually. Lohan’s perpetually made-up character is ogled at as much as possible in a G-rated film. As if enacting an English lecture about the oppressive male gaze, the camera lingers on her mini-miniskirted frame as she climbs through a car’s driver seat window and proceeds to floor the gas, all while wearing stilettos...
...Video Limousines and costly mini-series are out, and staff cutbacks are in, as ABC's new owners embark on a belt-tightening campaign...
...Book of Abraham, like its cast, is hardly flawless. Famous historical figures too often behave like cutouts in a Michener mini-series: " 'Your dream, young man, is also ours,' said Gutenberg. 'But wood engraving isn't the solution.' " " 'You've changed,' the painter Rembrandt van Rijn told Herschel a few days later. 'Your face is less luminous.' " The novel fulfills its mission when it leaves the famous and concentrates on the lives of the obscure--the uncelebrated and faceless figures who make history happen. Furnished with voices, the long silent tribe of Abraham reiterates the observation made by Playwright...
...some 300 positions were cut at ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Such familiar trappings of the executive life-style as limousines and liberal expense accounts are now frowned on. Programming, too, may soon feel the knife. The network known for such blockbuster mini-series as Roots and The Winds of War is now shying away from these extravagant ventures. Cheap game shows are not about to invade prime time, and Joan Collins' Dynasty finery appears safe, at least for the time being; but it is clear that more frugal times are ahead...
Still, new ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard insists that the network will not cut corners in trying to reconstruct a winning prime-time schedule. "We've got to protect what goes on screen," says Stoddard, 49, who was named programming chief last November after running ABC's mini-series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based...