Word: serialize
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...potential of filming real people live their lives was not lost on the earliest entertainment honchos. Nightwatch, a popular radio serial in the early 1950s, followed a group of Culver City, Calif. police officers on patrol (and became the ancestor of another reality giant, Cops). In 1973 An American Family, a 12-part series that brought us the Santa Barbara, Calif. Loud clan, broke new ground with its artful, excruciatingly real portrayal of a family in transition. With its unabashed invasion into the private lives of the Louds, and exploration of taboo subjects like the divorce of parents...
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, twin heirs to Marlon Brando's Method mantle, play New York City detectives on the trail of a cop who's a serial killer. The first movie in which the stars share prime screen time could have been an event--if it had happened 30 or 20 or even 10 years ago. Not now, not here. Instead of a World Series of acting, we get a wan Old Timers' Game...
...comic-book serial Heroes (Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.) debuted in 2006, but after the network aborted an atrocious second season halfway through--more a mercy killing than a hiatus--Season 3 is every bit as much a do-over. The premiere picks up directly from 2007's ending, and where last season moseyed toward reuniting its everyday superheroes, Season 3 gets them in the mix immediately. In particular, it keeps fan-favorite Hiro (Masi Oka) busy after stranding him in medieval Japan last season...
...meanwhile, has the biggest challenge, bringing back two heavily serial soap operas whose twists and turns many have probably long forgotten. Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money, both returning Oct. 1, open with ham-handed, if unavoidable, exposition scenes reminding us who the characters are and why we care...
...prices online, will be powered this semester by BrunoBooks, a similar site started in 2007 at Brown. Like Crimson Reading, which was founded in 2006 by then-UC members Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Jon T. Staff V ’10, BrunoBooks uses ISBNs (International Serial Book Numbers) to compare prices from online vendors with university bookstore prices. Under the terms of the agreement, no matter how much money Crimson Reading makes this semester, $3,000 will go to the charity that Crimson Reading has sponsored since its inception. After operating costs, 60 percent...