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Though no one got voted off Kopple's island, reality gave the documentary--sorry, reality mini-series!--a twist straight out of a soap opera: the night that high-powered publicist and society figure Lizzie Grubman allegedly backed her SUV into a crowd at a nightclub, reportedly after angrily calling a doorman "white trash." The case became the best automotive metaphor for class conflict on Long Island since Daisy Buchanan ran over Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby. But, surprisingly, Kopple gives it only a few minutes. "One thing shouldn't take over the whole summer," she says...
DIED. JOSEPH STEINER, 95, co-founder of Kenner toys, producer of such hits as Play-Doh, the Easy-Bake Oven and the Close 'N Play Phonograph; near Cincinnati, Ohio. Steiner stumbled upon the idea for his 1947 Bubble Rocket while researching soap bubbles...
...They say the apple never falls far from the tree. or is it, there's a rotten apple in every barrel? Either way, there aren't enough clich?s in the world to comfort South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, whose All My (Corrupt) Sons soap opera has the politician yearning for the do-nothing end of term to which a lame duck is entitled. Kim's youngest son, high-living L.A. resident Kim Hong Gul, faces charges that he took at least $1.2 million in bribes from local businessmen to facilitate deals. He apologized to his parents and the nation...
...most-intriguing-looking prospect, you'll have to wait until midseason: "Kingpin," a violent HBO wannabe about a Mexican drug lord and the DEA agents chasing him, had touches of both amoral crime opera and glitzy soap (its creative team comes from HBO's "The Sopranos" and "The Corner"; the production company is prime-time soap czar Aaron Spelling's). The network is hyping it, probably self-fulfillingly, as the most controversial show of the season - and NBC's so bravely behind it, they're ordering a whole six episodes. (Most new shows initially...
...scene and a short course in such lost arts as flint knapping. It's strangely absorbing: Auel's plodding prose won't win any Pulitzers, but there's a comfort to be had in her TiVo-free world, where people still get excited about a new way to make soap. Not that you will catch Auel pining for the old days. "I'd love to go visit there," she admits, "but I'd want to come back. Thank you, I prefer a nice hot shower." --By Lev Grossman