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...music has gone too far. "The music industry is cashing in on shock value, and parents have said, 'That's it--no further,' " says Ann Kahn, president of the NPTA. It is not only the W.A.S.P. who stand accused. It seems as though everyone is coming down on Judas Priest, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Twisted Sister and other metal machines. Madonna is being scrutinized. So is Sheena Easton, singing about her "sugar walls," and Sheila E., strutting her stuff. And Prince, going on about a girl masturbating with a magazine. And Michael Jackson...
...appraised as a model of thoroughness and balance. Lukas well knows Emerson's dictum that there is properly no history, only biography. When Colin Diver chases a mugger who battered a black woman outside his front door, when Alice McGoff debates with herself whether she can respect a Catholic priest who is a "pro-buser," when Rachel Twymon's sister hears rocks smash through her windows night after night, the story is larger than three families, and larger than Boston. As a narrative of people's repeated losses of faith, above all the faith that they can shape and control...
...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...Corpus Christi, Texas, Browning was packed off to Sunday school at a nearby Episcopal church by his parents, who were nonpracticing Methodists. "I probably wanted to be a priest from a very young age," he says. Browning, a congenial and soft-spoken churchman, is married and has five children. He has more international experience than any previous Presiding Bishop. He spent a dozen years as a priest and bishop in Okinawa, was the bishop supervising American Episcopal churches in Europe, and then served as Executive for National and World Mission at Episcopal headquarters in New York City...
...hardly be faulted for encouraging Hollywood's top talent to put big visions onto the small screen. Nor can the NBC brass be accused of gambling everything on one show. The network's other new series, including Hell Town, starring Robert Blake as a vigilante priest, and the highly touted sitcom The Golden Girls, have decent shots at survival. So do any number of new entries on the competing networks' rosters. Tartikoff, one of whose ten TV commandments is the famous "All hits are flukes," is sanguine about the immediate future. "We won't be surprised," he says...