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...hydrogen peroxide to minor cuts and scrapes; that can actually delay healing. Hydrogen peroxide kills pretty much everything in its path, including any immune cells that your body has rushed to the wound. All that's needed to treat most of these injuries is to wash them gently with soap and water--making sure dirt or any other foreign material is flushed out--and then to cover with a sterile bandage. It's O.K. to use a topical antibiotic ointment like Neosporin the first...
This may all be very predictable, but that's not a problem. The O.C. (as in Orange County, where the show is set) is a teen soap, and we fans of the genre no more want it to avoid cliches than we want McDonald's to serve escargots. We just want it to let us live vicariously the lives of wealthy people while also looking down on them. A decade ago, Beverly Hills, 90210 flattered heartland viewers by testing the Midwestern values of the transplanted Walsh family in BMW-and-bulimia Babylon. The O.C.'s outsider premise is both older...
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Pedro Almodovar directs this comedy filled with all your favorite soap-opera twists. Pepa, who realizes that her lover Ivan is leaving her, goes on a gun rampage and drugs Ivan’s son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge...
This article included enough lurid details of the brothers' atrocities for a prime-time TV soap opera or a month's worth of tabloid news. We know now that they were abusive, predatory, murderous criminals, but the oddly glamorized relish with which you chronicled their deeds has the scent of misguided Hollywood idolatry. DEAN LAMANNA Venice, Calif...
...Africans with satellite TV is growing by around 10% a year. Currently, M-Net has more than 1.3 million subscribers, 80% of whom live in South Africa. Those lucky few, and those who gather in bars and clubs to catch the latest broadcasts, are discovering a shared love of soap operas, soccer and especially African versions of reality-television shows such as Big Brother and Idols. "For the first time they're getting just African images, African people, African heroes, African music," says Carl Fischer, head of local production at M-Net. "It makes business sense: African content attracts subscribers...