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TELEMUNDO HASN'T RESORTED to classified ads yet, but it has done the next best thing. Starting this week, in conjunction with a local community college, the giant, Miami-based Spanish-language TV network is offering a college course to train new writers of telenovelas. Those prime-time soaps, with their stories of love lost and love found, are immensely popular in Latin America and increasingly so among the U.S. Hispanic audience. Telemundo, which produces all its own soaps, has four of them on the air each weekday evening, accounting for 40% of the network's total ad revenues...
Telemundo's solution? "We're growing our own," says chief operating officer Don Browne. The network has contracted with Miami Dade College, which was giving English courses to Telemundo's Spanish-speaking employees, to offer a free year of telenovela-scriptwriting classes. Of nearly 4,400 applicants from 26 countries, including Lithuania and Japan, 36 students were selected. They will develop, write and produce segments with actors, and when the course is over, they will have a good shot at a network job. Telenovelas typically last only six months, so there will be plenty of potential job openings. And training...
...about sending coded messages from the closet to the living room. Yes, there are still barriers to gays on TV--Survivor last fall edited a kiss between two women. But Ball and Murphy work in cable, where they could create gay characters--and have. Even on network TV, Housewives recently had Susan (Teri Hatcher) stumbling across the teenage son of Bree (Marcia Cross) smooching another guy at a pool party. When he comes out to Bree in a later episode, she says, "Well, I'd love you even if you were a murderer"--the precise response, Cherry says, that...
...solutions. In my view, clean water, productive soils and a functioning health-care system are just as relevant to development as foreign exchange rates. The task of ending extreme poverty is a collective one--for you as well as for me. The end of poverty will require a global network of cooperation among people who have never met and who do not necessarily trust one another...
...Complementing a raft of proposed amendments to the Family Law Act, the plan's centerpiece is a nationwide network of Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), where counselors will help separating parents work out a parenting plan before their anger and hurt - perhaps occasionally stoked by lawyers - can mutate into intransigence. And a task force, established by the government last August and headed by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme...