Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Television: The Stand is the best Stephen King mini-series...
...first two hours of The Stand, which Mick Garris directed from a screenplay by King, are as gripping as anything in recent TV memory. But after the cities have been cleaned out, the mini-series mutates into a more tepid apocalyptic soap opera. The narrative coalesces around a few disparate survivors (who have an unexplained immunity to the flu), among them an easygoing Texan (Gary Sinise), a pregnant young woman from Maine (Molly Ringwald), a rock singer (Adam Storke) and an angelic deaf-mute (Rob Lowe). The few people left are mystically drawn into two camps...
...Prime Suspect 3, a four-part British mini-series that begins Thursday on PBS' Mystery!, the murder scene is London's gay underground of "rent boys" (child prostitutes), their patrons and pimps. How can one approach this theme without being either sensational or homophobic? The strategy chosen by Lynda La Plante, who also wrote the first Prime Suspect and sketched the story for the second, is twofold: make most of the suspects sympathetic and most of the sleuths complete professionals...
Late Monday night, Harvard Real Estate removed the sign that had stood in front of Au Bon Pain since the Holyoke Center mini-mall opened last October...
...Littauer Quad, students can participatein carnival events; mini golf, gyrosphere, a dunktank, moonbounce, speed pitch baseball andbasketball hoops will all be featured...