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...pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas are they watching in Bangkok and whose Mando-pop CDs are they buying in Kuala Lumpur? Outside of Japan, Taiwan is Asia's leading pop cultural exporter. And when you're exporting your music, movies and TV shows, that means other countries are interested in what you think...
Since last July, Riegel has made the transition from life as a rising Harvard junior to working as a regular on the daily television series, in which she stars opposite soap opera icon Susan Lucci...
...student. Now he is serving a 210-year term in a maximum-security prison in the Alaskan mountains. Every night, before crashing in the tiny cell he shares with a fellow murderer, he mops the prison floors, a job that earns him $21 a month, just enough to buy soap, shampoo and stationery, which the Spring Creek Correctional Center does not supply for free. His face pasty white from lack of sun, Ramsey told TIME his biggest complaint is the total absence of privacy. The light is always on in his cell, and the toilet sits in the open...
...second was a show I had no enthusiasm for based on the premise: "Pasadena," a soap opera about a wealthy media family in Walnut Springs. (OK, Pasadena.) But expecting "Titans," I saw a moody, dark, seemingly intelligent piece that could be a more commercial descendent of past moody Fox dramas like "Profit." An additional encouraging sign: the creator turns out to be Mike White, the writer and creepy star of last summer's haunting "Chuck and Buck." (Also a former "Freaks and Geeks" writer, which with Apatow makes two "F&G" alums - always a good sign for a fall schedule...
Novak promises soap-stars with rope tricks, a new slate of student groups in bizarre acts, and-with visible pride-Bob Saget, star of the `80s television show Full House...