Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This tale f baseball birth is one of the more ludricous of the bunch. On a more spiritual note is James Kissane's coming-of-age mini-epic "Frankie's Home Run." Kissane tells the story of the summer when he was 12 years old, just breaking in his first pair of cleats and idolizing the older boys who got to play ball for his town's American Legion team. Unexpectedly, "Little Kissane" himself becomes the team's pitcher, and for the first time experiences "the glory of actually playing serious baseball...
...forewarned: Scum is no trashy mini-series plot waiting for the right network scriptwriter and a corporate sponsor. Like the characters it explores, the book's outward simplicity is deceptive. Singer's genius--his depiction of moral decay--is immensely complex and not fully apparent until the book's last explosive pages...
Remember the network mini-series? It used to roam the TV plains: a big, lumbering beast that would show up two or three times a year, sprawl across nights and nights of prime time and attract (at least sometimes) hordes of viewers. Mounting costs and sagging ratings have pretty much forced the networks to abandon these extravaganzas. Instead, we get tidy two-parters, most of them either tacky soap operas (Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope and Fine Things) or sensationalistic true-life crime stories (Love, Lies and Murder...
...segregation are not, for the most part, snarling bigots but honorable folks concerned about states' rights and constitutional precedents. The script humanizes the problem but does not shy away from the tough legal issues involved. Still, it is the sort of dutiful effort that demonstrates why the "quality" mini-series has hit hard times...
Last year all 55 Democratic Senators voted as one in a failed attempt to override President Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act. So what's holding up Ted Kennedy from introducing a new version of the bill this year? The problem: a mini-rebellion by at least half a dozen first-term Senators who are up for re-election and terrified that Republican challengers will smear them for supporting "racial quotas." Chuck Robb of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, confirms that he is "working with several people for a bill that can get signed." Translation...