Word: soaping
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Excuse me, readers, while I "Soap Up the Hawg!" [Here your correspondent "rhythmically" jerks his arms around, stands on one leg and then rolls over in a somersault...
...their mansions, the ?lite space out in other ways, too: staring for hours at the TV. "What we have is the satellite television culture," says artist Unvar Shafi Khan. Amin agrees. "It's never about individuality. Women in their 40s say, 'Make me look like Dynasty [a 1980s soap opera],' and their daughters want their hair styled like the girls' in Friends," says Amin...
...hard to know what to expect as some of the players in this collegiate soap opera—now seniors—gathered around an outdoor table at Au Bon Pain during senior week. After four years, most of the raging lust had mellowed, but FM was pleased to see that the intense atmosphere of flirtation had not entirely died. Here are their candid musings on beer funnels, brawling proctors and loving your (next door) neighbor...
...government-run Afghan Film Studio in Kabul. When the Taliban took the city, Barmak fled to the north, where he made documentaries for the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was later assassinated by al-Qaeda. Next he escaped to Pakistan, where he starred in a radio soap opera for Afghan refugees. His moviemaker friends from the studio weren't so lucky. Barmak returned to Kabul after the fall of the Taliban, to find his former partners broken and dispirited. "I had to find a way to rehabilitate them," he says. "They didn't feel like they were filmmakers...
...seams. In the midseason "Cracking Up," a psychology student is assigned to live with a rich family, whose members turn out to be sociopaths, obsessives or just creepy. It's from Mike White, who created the fantastic 2001 "Pasadena" for Fox, and it seems basically like that soap opera's twisted-rich story rewritten as a comedy - let's hope it fares better the second time. Finally, there's "The Ortegas," a talk-show within-a-sitcom about a family that builds its son a talk-show set in back of the house. You can find the kits at Home...