Word: parters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beginning next week, which by chance kicks off sweeps month, the networks will run a record number of these so-called shockumentaries. It's not just Fox, which has ruled the genre, but also ABC, NBC, UPN and even PBS (Nova has a four-parter called Escape! Because Accidents Happen). Most of these shows (except the Nova series) come from four Los Angeles producers: Bruce Nash, Erik Nelson, Brad Lachman and Eric Schotz. They carry out the networks' belief that the only TV young men will watch is extremely violent events shown two or three times in slow motion. When...
...back with his first solo album in five years, the initial installment of a two parter. War is loud and aggressive; Ice Cube was recently featured on the hard-rock Family Values tour, and he knows how to make noise. He also knows how to tell a story: Ghetto Vet is a cold-eyed look at the life of a wheelchair-bound victim of gunfire. A number of songs here are cartoony and over the top, but they are mostly redeemed by pulsating numbers like Pushin' Weight...
...teleplays. In 1964 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Parliament as a Labour Party candidate, then wrote his two Nigel Barton plays about a Labour M.P. that hit such a nerve the party demanded they be softened. He fictionalized his military service in last year's six-parter, Lipstick on Your Collar. His 1986 magical musical memory masterpiece, The Singing Detective, pictured a writer who, while suffering an egregious skin disease, psoriatic arthropathy (as Potter did), recalls his youth in Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean (where he grew up). For a quarter-century, Potter was England's raw conscience...
...anti-violence campaign may have an even greater impact in the shows that viewers won't see. All three networks have said they will back off from their overzealous pursuit of true-crime movies of the week. ABC, which drew fire for its two-parter in May about 1950s mass murderer Charles Starkweather, has turned down a proposed TV movie about 1960s mass murderer Richard Speck. Critics may cheer at the demise of this tawdry TV-movie crime wave, but good films may get hurt in the process. ABC had planned to air the explosively violent (and Oscar-winning) film...