Word: piloted
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...give away the story ahead of time. Suffice it to say that the pilot's hormonal preoccupations, though largely limited to words rather than deeds, have already drawn a consternated flurry from cultural watchdogs. "You gotta look past the 'size queen' references and masturbation talk," says Williamson. "The show at its core is about sweaty palms, hand holding and 'Will she kiss...
...girl in town whose dark past will emerge in time for the February sweeps, and his childhood pal Joey (the impossibly lovely Katie Holmes), product of a very broken home, who helps make the show a likely TV-14 by climbing in Dawson's window in the pilot episode, flopping onto his bed and then...
Speaking of Showgirls, Starship Troopers is also audaciously political and even--gasp!--feminist in its handling of the gender-mixing of its military forces. Gender is never portrayed as an impediment to becoming a spaceship pilot or front-line soldier; actually, neither the film nor its characters acknowledge any gender gap at all. The harmony between male and female soldiers is so improbably complete that everyone showers together in the wide-open locker room. Sexual liaisons do occur among unit members, but cease en flagrante when the battle-siren sounds. Not a character in the movie questions any of this...
...PILOT AND DR. RUTH...
...pediatrician with a direct, matter-of-fact manner, Ruth and her lanky husband Mike had abandoned Spokane, Wash., six months before and settled in the exclusive Cincinnati suburb of Beckett Ridge. A pilot at Airborne, Mike had been commuting by plane to Wilmington for his seven-day work stints, but a terrifying incident had taken place at the Spokane military hospital where Ruth was working: a gunman rampaged through the place, killing five and wounding 23. "I was in Wilmington when it happened," says Mike, 39. "And I said, 'Enough.'" Beckett Ridge was safer, but to Ruth, 35, the place...