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...airs Dec. 12 at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. But you suspect that if one of those ghosts had used this show to convince Scrooge how wonderful Christmas is, the old man would have been justified in denying Tiny Tim his goose. Yes, many Christmas customs are pagan in origin, but does that justify a special Christmas episode of Melrose Place in which Jennifer tries to blackmail Lexi, who ODs? And as for the drama specials, most of which seem to star Richard Thomas, they certainly ought to make us cry, but they too often resort to the cheapest tricks...
Many of these traits, of course, could be viewed as a direct result of the movie's origin as a stage play. But what works on stage doesn't always work on film, and Bent's stagey conventions make it drag along...
...ORIGIN: Developed at the CIA's behest during the cold war to spy on the Soviet Union, the plane was created by Lockheed's famed Skunk Works unit (nicknamed after the "Skonk Works" in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner).The aircraft made its first flight in August...
...their theory to the test, researchers took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...
...Cloth or disposable? For answers, just click on BabyCenter.com a new Website for parents-to-be with a due-date calculator and tips from baby doc T. Berry Brazelton. Best of all: the baby-namer database of 5,000 given names, from Anglo-Saxon to Yoruban, searchable by gender, origin and popularity. A Gaelic name that starts with B? No problem: Blaine. Here's hoping your Yoruban baby isn't Aina: a "complicated delivery...