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Daniel (Aidan Quinn), an Episcopal priest in an affluent New York City suburb, has a lot to talk about. His son Jimmy has died of leukemia; son Peter (Christian Campbell) is gay; adopted son Adam (Ivan Shaw) is bedding the teenage daughter of an influential parishioner. Daniel's daughter Grace (Alison Pill) was busted for dealing pot. His mother has Alzheimer's. His boss the bishop (Ellen Burstyn) has been riding him. His brother-in-law has disappeared with $3 million of church money. To take the edge off, Daniel has been turning not only to Jesus (Garret Dillahunt...
...Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...
...têtes, deals with the Catholic guilt of Leary's character (who also loses a son and pops pills). The most glaring parallels are to HBO'S Six Feet Under, with its Episcopal repression, uptight gay son and angry, artistic daughter. On Daniel, the network leash keeps tugging distractingly. Peter, like so many other gay TV characters, is conveniently "getting over a breakup," and in the pilot, Daniel has to have a pat moment of connection with each of his children before the credits roll...
...PETER H. BROOKS...
...programs will say to the enemy: 'Here's what they do; adjust,'" he said. "This is a war. Of course, we consult with Congress and have been consulting with Congress and will continue to do so." Bush reacted with both the evil eye and the scolding finger when Peter Baker of the Washington Post asked: "If the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that we're going to see, therefore, a more or less permanent expansion of the unchecked power of the executive in American society?" Bush anwered...