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...Parents Television Council (PTC), a TV-decency watchdog, is not so charmed. When CBS picked up Dexter as a strike replacement from sister network Showtime, it cut out the most graphic violence and language, but the group is pressing advertisers to boycott the show anyway. Edits or no edits, says PTC president Tim Winter, "it's the entire premise that's the problem. You are in a disturbingly queasy way rooting for a mass murderer to kill somebody...
...Writers' Strike? On Feb. 13, screen- and TV writers resumed work after a long strike that cost the Los Angeles County economy some $3.2 billion. Unions tentatively agreed to a three-year contract that, among other things, gives writers a piece of the profits from new media like Internet streams and downloads...
WHAT'S NEXT Seems like a Guild victory, but the strike could hurt in the long run. After a 100-day hiatus, studios may be more ready for life without writers...
...industry's glamourati will assemble in all their post-writers'-strike glory at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles for the 80th awards bash of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Hundreds of millions of people around the world will tune in as prizes are doled out to films most of the TV viewers haven't seen. They watch in part because the laying on of statuettes is meant to signify the designation of supreme cinematic quality. The Best Picture winner will be able to claim parity with such enduring masterworks as The Greatest Show on Earth, Around...
...Many Timorese were astonished by the news, for "the Major" - as Reinado was known locally - was considered a clever and cunning tactician who would rarely put himself in danger. In May 2006, half the Timorese army was dismissed following a strike protesting discrimination against soldiers from the west of the country. The government had used the army to crush the strike with great brutality: at least five men died and many more were wounded. Reinado led his men into the mountains in disgust. He had since eluded capture, using his intimate knowledge of the mountain and bush tracks...