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...There seems to be some kind of degrading homosexual joke or insinuation in nearly every chapter, not to mention the constant marginalization of the Italians living in the North End. Perhaps Lyons fully intended to explore the pre-existing homoerotic relationship between Reilly and his roommate Even, a scenario that would have admittedly been more interesting to read than the slapstick imitation-Tarantino Mafia violence which bulks up Dog Days. Reilly and Evan are always denying that they are attracted to each other and make all sorts of homophobic jokes, to no avail--even their girlfriends insist that there...
...White House is bombed, the President and Vice President killed and a deadly poisonous gas asphyxiates everyone within a several-block radius. Oh, yeah, the Russian President is assassinated, and the world's in chaos. This plausible scenario is the setup for Seven Days, a new series being created for the fledgling (and lowest rated) UPN Network. Produced by Paramount Television (which owns UPN) at a cost of more than $4 million, Seven Days' pilot is reputedly the most expensive produced for the new season, twice as pricey as most others. Where's the moolah going? Into the special effects...
...picture prepares us for. Moreover, Cholodenko falls into her own writerly trap just as Neil LaBute did in last year's In the Company of Man: her escalating interest in her story's allegorical conflicts of Work, Love, and Ambition bleed all the initial power from an emotionally explosive scenario...
...what Paul Saffo at the Institute for the Future calls a "low-probability, high-consequence event." Says Saffo: "There is great danger in our cross-dependencies with computers, but there are also lots of humans in the loop making judgments." In the end, says Saffo,"the most likely scenario by far is that we'll muddle through...
...suggesting the authoritative adult reimagined by a clear-eyed child, the guilty class reinvented in the image of the innocent one. His "little fellow" was the expression of a wildly sentimental, deeply felt allegiance to rags over riches by the star of the century's most conspicuous Horatio Alger scenario...