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...dramas started with "Las Vegas," and sadly, no, it's not a remake of the Robert Urich classic (hence the "Las"). It is what looks to be a kind of glitzy, action-heavy soap opera for guys, set in what we're told is the glamorous world of casino security, which apparently involves more than keeping drunk computer salesmen from groping the cocktail waitresses. Starring James Caan, Nikki Cox and Cheryl Ladd, it comes from the writer of "The Fast and the Furious" (It had a writer! Who knew?) and is assured to be a hit, says Zucker, because...
...Japan. Nor does the U.S. have a history of conquests like the Muslims, Turks, Persians and Greeks, to name a few. The one thing the U.S. can pride itself on is that it isn't interested in long-term rule of others. We are too absorbed in TV soap operas and professional sports to be bothered. ROY A. MURRAY JR. Manassas...
...Those South Korean TV dramas are now hugely popular in the North. Before she fled North Korea to China in early March, Park Sun Hee (not her real name) had seen all the latest South Korean soaps. She says she once rigged a line to a factory to steal electricity and watched the hit soap Juliet's Man until dawn. "I was very happy," she says. "It was a very revolutionary thing for me to stay up all night watching movies." That's exactly what scares the Party. The document warns that if nothing is done, "Socialism is going...
...know, it’s a curious thing,” he says. “It wasn’t really an asset, auditioning for commercials or soap operas. They kind of assume you to be a dumb and docile actor...
Elvis Mitchell’s New York Times review of Monsoon Wedding praised the realism of its hand-held camera work and Nair’s ability to turn the slightly clichéd plot into something beyond soap opera...