Word: savannah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clint Eastwood says he won't star in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. However, he will direct the tale of a murder set in Savannah, Georgia. Producer Arnold Stiefel, who bought the screen rights for a modest $300,000 before John Berendt's book became a best seller, couldn't be happier: "It's good nobody in Hollywood has time to read...
...That Savannah, a new soap from producer Aaron Spelling (Sundays, 9 p.m. EST), could seem more grounded in reality than anything else on WB is indeed a tribute, though to what is open to debate. The show, which debuted last month and garnered the network its highest ratings ever (3.6 Nielsen points, compared with its average of 2.4), revolves around young women who live, love, cheat and eat a lot of pecan pie in the fashionable Georgia city that gives the show its name. Spelling has made some missteps in the past few years (e.g., University Hospital); with Savannah...
...Savannah achieves perfect-pitch campiness while steering clear of the baroque absurdity in which Melrose has lately dabbled. There is little chance, for example, that anyone on Savannah will enter an insane asylum and emerge a psychoanalyst--which is not to say Savannah is lacking in comedy. This is a show, after all, in which actors and actresses are made to address each other as "you cheap piece of white trash" with as much sweaty disgust as they can muster...
...basic setup is yet another variation on one of soapdom's archetypal conflicts: the pitting of the poor, conniving, tube-top-wearing vixen against the tasteful, trust-funded beauty. Peyton Richards (Jamie Luner) is the former, Savannah's pre-eminent troublemaker; her rival is the kindly, blond Reese Burton (Shannon Sturges), an heiress with the IQ of Spanish moss...
...series is filled with intriguing secondary characters, especially Reese's domineering father, who is played with creepy panache by Ray Wise. Savannah is such deliciously bad Southern gothic that it may even help you forget the simply awful Northern Gotham that was Central Park West...