Word: soaped
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Tokyo happening. Visitors to the Earth Day festival at Yume-no-shima (Dream Island), a park built on what was once a trash dump, can take in a concert or play, watch milk cartons being turned into postcards and cooking oil into soap, or tour two nearby garbage-processing centers...
...outline, ABC's heralded new series Twin Peaks sounds like an amalgam of familiar TV genres. A touch of true-crime docudrama, a dash of Columbo, a jot of Knots Landing. But in the darkly idiosyncratic world of director David Lynch, terms like murder mystery and soap opera don't begin to tell the tale. Twin Peaks, which debuts Sunday as a two-hour movie, is like nothing you've seen in prime time -- or on God's earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American...
Will TV audiences feel just as good about the mutant soap opera he has concocted? Frost hopes the series will reach "a coalition of people who may have been fans of Hill Street, St. Elsewhere and Moonlighting, along with people who enjoyed the nighttime soaps." ABC Entertainment chief Robert Iger admits the show will be a hard sell (especially in the time slot opposite Cheers on Thursday nights). Says he: "A lot of people have said Twin Peaks is the critic's dream. But is it the viewer's nightmare? I would hope that the answer is that...
...local public-television station. In the past few months, they have all been hitting me up for renewal. What's more, they have generously shared my name and address with other groups willing to gamble that a tender concern for the First Amendment or a fondness for British soap operas will tend to accompany a sympathy for elephants and dolphins or a passion to deny a raise to members of Congress...
...toward law school, his vision of life at the bar ate at him: "I saw everything laid out in front of me, on a conveyor belt." He transferred to New York University's acting school, and within a year he had won a job on the TV soap The Doctors. Now the other Baldwin boys -- Billy, Daniel and Stephen -- are actors as well. "It was a case of 'If he can do it, we can too,' " Alec says. "Our parents were appalled...