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...gems, "Charlie's Angels" fell flat as trash TV. The reason? Successful exploitative entertainment is created by people who are either entirely honest about what they're doing (in the unrepentantly sleazy manner of professional wrestling) or blissfully unaware of how bizarre their creation actually is (the patron saint of this sort of misguided brilliance being the legendary Edward D. Wood Jr.). "Charlie's Angels" had a sterile approach that contrasted sharply with its reputation as the foremost example of "jiggle TV." Having been a teenager during that period, I can assure you that sexier situations cropped...
...opened his own production company called Kevin Fennessy Casting, which is allied with Christy Scott's Saint-Aire Productions and provides a wide-range of casting services...
...ISIDORE OF SEVILLE Patron Saint of the Internet Isidore, an education fanatic and voluminous writer, is also the patron saint of computer users and techies, so you can pray to him, whether it's an iMac, a PC or a beta version of Netscape that's crashing...
...FRANCIS OF ASSISI Patron Saint of Ecologists Francis, better known as the patron saint of Italy, founded the Franciscan order, built the first Nativity scene and received the first known stigmata...
...ALOYSIUS GONZAGA Patron Saint of AIDS Patients Laid up early in life with kidney disease, Aloysius counted it a blessing because it gave him more prayer time. At 17 he renounced his family's wealth and became a Jesuit, devoting the rest of his life to the care of plague sufferers...