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...know sensationalism is back in style when Geraldo Rivera, network TV's original advocacy reporter, is riding high. After getting dumped from ABC's 20/20 in 1985, Rivera started an improbable comeback by opening Al Capone's long-sealed vault on live TV. The cupboard was bare, but ratings were huge, and Rivera followed up with melodramatic specials on such topics as drugs and death row, as well as with a daytime talk show. This week he returns to network TV with a two-hour special on NBC, Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground. The sometimes graphic show dwells...
...Downey Jr. shouts down guests nightly on his talk show; a parade of lesbian mothers, sex surrogates and rape victims tell their teary stories to Oprah and Phil; and several new series are in the works, including a Current Affair clone called Inside Edition and a new offering from Rivera dubbed The Investigators...
...sudden, the explosion of tabloid shows should not be surprising. There is no reason why TV should not have its own version of the New York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...
Alejandro Rivera and New Directions in Latin American Music perform a mix of jazz and improvisational Latin American traditional music this Monday night at the Charles River Esplanade in Boston. Admission is free. Telephone 727-5215. Film...
...leading Hispanic writers are joined by a diversity of other developing talents, including Jose Rivera (The Promise), Lynne Alvarez (The Wonderful Tower of Humbert Lavoignet), Reuben Gonzalez (The Boiler Room) and Romolo Arellano (Tito). Like the black writers of a generation ago, the Hispanics seem to be moving beyond an initial preoccupation with anger, self-pity and reductionist politics toward a stage literature that communicates rather than confronts, that reaches for universality and yet portrays people individually. Enriching the American dramatic vocabulary with Latin techniques and traditions, these new playwrights also emulate their U.S. forebears: as in the heritage stretching...