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They'd better. The show, Weekly World News (based on the supermarket tabloid of the same name), teeters precariously between sensationalism and spoof. It is one of those high-concept, high-wire acts that Tartikoff was known for at NBC, like the "MTV Cops" that eventually became Miami Vice (big hit), or the crime fighter who could transform himself into a jungle beast in Manimal (big bomb). Weekly World News, a proposed series for CBS that will air for two episodes this spring, is as good a show as any to serve notice to the TV world that Brandon Tartikoff...
Over spring break last year, while at home, I ran into an elderly neighbor at the supermarket. He was a big, masculine-sort of guy, a throwback to the pre-Fabio days when bigness and masculinity necessarily went together, and he was exceptionally friendly: he had spent more time playing catch with me while I was growing up than he had watching the Royals on the boob tube...
...less than 24 hours until Thanksgiving feasts begin around the country, there is no business like turkeys business for local supermarket and grocery owners...
Regionally, southern California is at the vortex it seems of America's hate-speech induced violence, one instance of which occurred in 1989 outside a supermarket in La Verne. Four skinheads attacked an Iranian couple and their week-old infant, whom they assumed were Jews. Another incident in 1991 in Fullerton involved a skin head gang assaulting a Chinese-American student and two of his White friends...
...farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then 25 years in noble renunciation, all privacy was gone. Lush-hipped, high-mileage beauties with roses in their teeth and not too much cellulite stared at you moist-eyed from behind self-service gas pumps and supermarket Chardonnay displays. You wondered if you should quickly do some push-ups in the men's room so those cords in your forearms would stand out better. These weathered, yearning women were so vulnerable, so trembling with hope...