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Indeed, Monk (which airs on USA Fridays at 10 p.m. E.T.) is the kind of distinctive, fresh series that the big networks could make but rarely do. It's a lighthearted whodunit--think of '70s shows like The Rockford Files--but with added sophistication and poignance, in part because of Shalhoub's dryly funny performance. But Shalhoub almost didn't take the part. "I liked [the script]," he says, "but I didn't see myself doing it." His manager told him to take a second look. "She was trying to tell me in a covert way that it was well...
...particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from its birth in 1943 until 1952; in New Port Richey, Florida. For six seasons, Deegan pitched and played second base for the famed Rockford Peaches, portrayed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. NAMED. DR. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific...
DIED. ROY HUGGINS, 87, pioneering writer-producer of popular TV series such as Maverick, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files; in Santa Monica, Calif. Huggins' dramas were innovative in style and tone: Maverick (1957-62) took a tongue-in-cheek approach to the popular western genre, while The Fugitive (1963-67) drew huge ratings for the finale of its four-year saga of Dr. Richard Kimble, a man wrongly accused of murdering his wife...
...intellectual revelation has both ruined and redeemed his life; and a math teacher who has ruthlessly and repeatedly reinvented himself. The action of the novel unfolds in two very different sites—the fame, fortune and appearance-obsessed world of New York City and the suburban town of Rockford, Ill., an erstwhile paragon of industrialization—against the backdrop of contemporary American culture...
Meanwhile, back in Swenson's hometown of Rockford, Ill., another Charlotte, the plain teenage daughter of Swenson's childhood friend, drifts between an affair with a mysterious math teacher, an older man of shifting and suspect identity, and study sessions with her uncle, a history professor. The latter's vision of a post-industrial America infatuated with "a headlong forward motion that was inherently catastrophic" nudges him toward madness. The math teacher is eventually revealed to be a terrorist "sleeper" gone awol, an ominous visitor from an unnamed part of the world filled with "dust, rage, starved zealous faces, languages...