Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...
...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...
...watch Josh on CBS's The Early Show on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. E.T. Any questions? E-mail him at jquit@well.com
...CONTACT How to get the ailing Broadway musical off life support? Director Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman have an answer: Cut out the singing. Their exhilarating show is composed of three heartfelt love stories told in dance and dialogue accompanied mostly by a wildly diverse jukebox of pop records and enlivened by the performances of Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba...
...WOMEN'S USA SOCCER TEAM If Title IX needed a face to show how transforming women's sports can be, it got a team of them. Though the competition was limited and the games were a bit dull, this group got America excited about female athletes. These gals were fun, talented, likable and incredibly market savvy. Thousands of little girls are now denting their garage doors, telling themselves they are Julie Foudy. And best of all, so are little boys...