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...Grant's new reality show is so sweet that you may need to brush and floss after watching it. In the pilot for Three Wishes, making its debut this fall on NBC, the Christian-pop singer and a crew visit a small California town to do three life-changing deeds. They arrange an operation for a girl whose skull was shattered in a car accident. They help a boy get adopted. And they build a new football field in honor of a high school coach with leukemia. Grant dispenses hugs by the bushel, sheds tears and pulls out her guitar...
...this moment of crisis, these series swing into place like a virtual social safety net. (All we're missing is a reality show on which 10 seniors compete to get their pensions restored.) And there are plenty of takers. In the Three Wishes pilot, the townspeople line up in droves to pitch their wishes to producers, like peasants petitioning a medieval lord. "The whole parking lot is filled with people humbling themselves asking for a hand," Grant says. "It's a beautiful thing...
...million in 2004 from $264 million in 2000, and its stock price has increased from 55˘ a share to nearly $8 a share. "It's part of our heritage to go where others won't," says Randy Martinez, the airline's CEO and a former Air Force pilot, who noted that his airline was the first to fly a commercial flight into Baghdad after the U.S. invasion. "All the indications are we will continue to be awfully busy with military work for the foreseeable future...
...Human Touch in late 2003, the actress flew herself to L.A. for her date with Diana Skouris. Interestingly in a show exploring "otherness" (and despite its unabashed cheesiness, The 4400 parallels the events of 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay with intelligence), McKenzie was asked to play against type. (In the pilot series, the clairvoyant 8-year-old returnee confesses to agent Skouris how she wishes she were like everyone else. "What's normal?" asks Skouris. "You are," replies the girl.) The character felt right, McKenzie says, "and it's funny because the role is not like...
...students—Stephen D. Grove and Hsing Wei—already have been selected for a pilot investigative reporting project this summer at ABC News in New York, where they will join counterparts from the other four schools participating in the initiative...