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...Remember a few years ago, when "Smackdown!" was the hottest show on UPN and it rounded out its slate with rude-boy shows like "Shasta McNasty"? A strange thing has happened since then: the testosterone network has gone all girly. The estrogenous "America's Next Top Model" is the biggest hit the network has ever had. (Little-known fact about TV: women actually want to watch scantily clad hot women knocking each other down on runways more than men do.) So today the network said it would stop fighting its feelings and free the woman trapped inside its hairy-chested...
...time slot anyway.) Which means that next season we get not one but two editions of Tyra Banks' ingenious masterpiece of ambition and bitchiness. Bridging the months between them will be "The Missy Elliott Project," which UPN describes as a hip-hop version of "Top Model," in which a group of aspiring performers hits the road to get their freak on and compete to become her protege...
...business of TV, you hear at the upfronts, is all about change. Changing schedules, changing genres, changing business models, changing technology. This is appealing to TV critics, of course, since we need new things to write about. And it's also appealing to the advertisers, since change is part of their business: convincing people that the car or computer or low-carb beer they bought last year is old news, and that they need to upgrade to the new model...
...copy of Goddess. Nowhere else is her loopy sadness and extraterrestrial beauty put to better effect. In Law's underrated art-house flick, Byrne plays a damaged blind girl who lures a young Tokyo man across the Outback; her hair squirrel red, the color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes, she had to survive on talent alone, in the process taking out the Copa Volpi...
...Also, at 14 lbs., the 4-in. scope is extremely portable, but each time you relocate to see past, say, a tree, you'll have to help the scope reorient itself. That may take a couple of minutes, but it beats shelling out a few grand for a model that uses GPS for self-alignment...