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...soon to be former morning show, CBS This Morning, perennially finished third in the ratings, largely because the network committed scant resources to it. Now it has tapped the high-priced Gumbel and built a sleek, $30 million Fifth Avenue studio because it can't afford not to. Situated in the only time slot in which network audiences are actually growing, the morning programs earn as much as half a billion dollars a year, led by Today, which just celebrated 200 weeks atop the ratings. (The shows are also valuable for shilling nightly newsmagazines, cable sister shows and other network...
...such as Russia, China and Indonesia literally get away with murder. By that token, what can be read into the apathy shown toward Africa's humanitarian crises? None of the transgressors can be considered "important" in that context, so why have America and the rest of the world shown scant interest in the suffering of the innocent civilians of Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African states? PAUL MATHIAS Pretoria, South Africa...
...characters still account for only about 2% of TV's roster, and with scant exceptions, we generally see a lone gay character associating largely with straights, viewing pals' sexcapades from the sidelines with what-fools-these-breeders-be amusement. But if nothing else, gay and straight characters show a new openness, sophistication and realism, sometimes with the help of consultants; GLAAD worked with McCormack to refine Will after the show's pilot. ("No gay man had hair like Will's, really long in the back," jokes Seomin. "He looked like Jerry Seinfeld.") Certainly much of the biting banter...
...standing. These are not in themselves bad gods and they certainly are not new gods either. One must judge a deity by its martyrs. Many might die for democracy; very few, I think, for the 106th Congress. And how must a courtier live? He must survive by intrigue and scant trust, through deference to the king and his gods, by keeping out of the fields and sun. By, in short, the mean ends Purdy deplores...
...creatures ripped off from Starship Troopers. Another, for the aforementioned Anna and the King was no less grandiose, featuring sweeping scenes of tropical jungles, ornate palaces and royal processions. Unfortunately, like Titan, Anna was similarly vague in it's promises -- it looked damn gorgeous to be sure, but was scant in dealing out specific details...