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Enjoy life while you can, NYPD Blue and Chicago Hope. Your likes may not be long for this world. All three networks seem to be moving inexorably toward a prime-time news hour nearly every night of the week (usually at 10 p.m., 9 p.m. in the middle of the country), which could combine an evening-news-style wrap-up of the day's events with the kind of feature segments and investigative pieces that currently fill the magazine shows. Such a program could even--somewhere down the road, when the Rathers and Brokaws and Jenningses have passed from...
...trapped by stereotypes not of their own making. "No profession has been so massively fictionalized," he writes--and then just piles on. When Hoolihan interrogates Jennifer's boyfriend Trader Faulkner, for instance, he threatens to lawyer up, provoking a response from Hoolihan that will be familiar to all NYPD Blue viewers...
...investigation. Until last week, the criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting on a former White House intern but reportedly planned to wire her to run one on the President himself, as if he were John Gotti...
...leave at any time, but her lawyer, William Ginsburg, said she was "restrained by mental coercion. She was crying and screaming and yelling...They told her if she left she'd be subject to immediate prosecution. This kid was beside herself." He described it as "a treatment for NYPD Blue." Throughout this ordeal, Lewinsky had no lawyer present...
...have to have a moment's sympathy for the President to know that this convergence of Jones, Starr and the FBI is not right. No one is worried much about civil liberties when Sipowicz is browbeating the bad guy on NYPD Blue. But the latest Washington drama is for real. As Starr disgraces the Judicial Branch and Clinton the Executive one, things once lost--like respect for privacy, the presidency and proportion--cannot be retrieved. Next up: perhaps the Legislative Branch, to stage a trial blending the worst of Watergate and Melrose Place, a show so repulsive it might even...