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...Israel, which earlier this year gave us HBO's therapy drama In Treatment. In this dramedy, emphasis on the -medy, single gal Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser - and, yes, Bloom owns a flower shop) throws a bachelorette party and gets thrown for a loop when the bridal party visits a psychic. Bella, the clairvoyant says, will get married within a year, to one of her ex-boyfriends - but if she doesn't find him in that time frame, she will never marry. (Some prophets speak in parables; this one speaks in high-concept-series pitches.) Each episode she tracks down...
...Name-Is-Girl concept may be outlandish, but Ex List is also fresh and raunchily funny (there's a scene in the pilot comparing feminine-waxing choices to historical figures - the "Hitler," the "Gandhi"), and Reaser is winning and adorable. If you can check your skepticism at the psychic's bead curtain, it's a charming, funny, undemanding escape - a sort of romantic procedural. Any praise for the show needs an asterisk, though, because the original producer-writer, Diane Ruggiero, recently quit in a creative dispute with CBS, which she said resisted the changes she wanted to make from...
...Beliefs I enjoyed Aravind Adiga's letter "Mystical Mischief" but I cannot decide whether he gets it or not [July 28]! I do not believe in the mumbo jumbo of psychic readings and palmistry, but does he not see that the West now realizes science does not have all the answers? I hope that as India embraces science and all its benefits it does not develop a "consciousness that their old beliefs are antiquated and will pass." That, I am sure, would be a terrible mistake. Thomas G. Lamont, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND...
...Knox's account ends diffidently. Its last entry is a New Year's Eve letter from an Army captain to his mother, composed as he awaited another Chinese midnight attack near Seoul. ''We're kind of stuck out on a limb here,'' he writes. But without too much overt psychic dislocation, most of the men managed to climb down and take their place in society. In a war with no winners, that was the real triumph...
...this cycle ever going to end? It has to someday, although at this point only a fool or a psychic would dare predict when. The more important question may be, What the heck does it all mean for people without Bloomberg terminals and subscriptions to the Financial Times...