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...JACK THE RIPPER (CBS, Oct. 21 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Michael Caine is a Scotland Yard detective tracking down the granddaddy of all serial killers in this two- parter...
Equally, he appreciates Shaw's arch humor. He cites deadpan a letter to the editor in which Shaw "wrote of Jack the Ripper as an 'independent genius' who by 'private enterprise' had succeeded where socialism failed in getting the press to take some sympathetic interest in the conditions of London's East End." Recalling Shaw's epistolary romance with actress Ellen Terry, he quotes a vintage bit of Shavian grumping: "Let those who may complain that it was all on paper remember that only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love." Describing...
...stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
...lowest common denominator, making its programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...
...preposterously silly and stupid. In creating such a selfish, flawed heroine, Johnson took a calculated risk: readers might not be able to see themselves and their prejudices through Chloe and make the appropriate adjustments toward the truth. The enterprise will leave some unsatisfied. Persian Nights is neither a bodice ripper nor a + treatise on the Iranian revolution, but an intriguing compromise: an attempt to show major upheavals as a progress of small shocks...