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...chicken wings from a prison vending machine b) said, "No one believes a word I say anyway, so..." c) devoured his soap on a rope...
...many Elizas." For if this current production is known for anything these days it is the curious aspect of its leading lady - make that ladies - being unable to perform. The original Eliza, soap-opera actress Martine McCutcheon, came down with flu on opening night March 16 and missed several weeks of the show's early run. Then her understudy also fell ill, prompting the producers on one night to rush the understudy's understudy on stage with only a few hours notice, a turn of events that a clearly wearied Pryce had to explain to the audience before the night...
...political humiliation of the Bush presidency, the newly minted Independent from Vermont might have expected rough treatment from the Bushies - or at least the cold shoulder. But, like McCain, Jeffords won a visit to the White House instead, for a meeting on education policy. Even Daschle received the new soap- suds treatment. For plotting the defection that embarrassed the president, Daschle, too, is being rewarded with a dinner at the nation's most famous mansion. Like McCain, he might want to bring his own food-testers...
...thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, 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? After Japan, Taiwan is Asia's leading pop-culture exporter. And when you're exporting music, movies and TV shows, other countries are interested in what you think and who you are. The upshot...
There are a few signs that the major networks are paying attention too. CBS carries the Latin Grammys and in June begins broadcasting the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful with a Spanish-language track, eyeing Univision and Telemundo's sizable telenovela audience. And last week, NBC signed a deal with Jennifer Lopez to do a music special next fall and develop a sitcom based on her childhood, even though the popular singer-actress is not expected to appear in it. The browning of TV is overdue. But it could just come about because of a different kind...