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DEADWOOD (HBO, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T.) Think of this revisionist western as the Desperate Housewives of the 19th century. Granted, its characters swear more and bathe far less often. But both series take two mythic American settings--the frontier and the suburbs--and expose their ugly secrets. In the second season, the arrival of corporate interests in a gold-rush town gives viewers a fresh starting point (a DVD of Season 1 is also out). It's an engrossing story of how the West was won--or bought...
...indecency then, context is king. The PTC and the FCC say it was not indecent to air Saving Private Ryan on network TV--even though children might be watching during prime time--because of the context: soldiers swear in war. But of course, mobsters swear too. So could The Sopranos, just as critically praised, air on NBC? Can only good guys drop the F bomb? Indecency activists often cite the dictum of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on obscenity: "I know it when I see it." But who knows indecency, and what do they...
...Veronica” section of the official show website, someone (by coincidence, I swear, named “J. Lurie”) asks that very question. Veronica replied, “Look at your school, look at all the girls sitting by themselves or wandering around and ask yourself why you haven’t noticed them before. I think, within the next day or so, you will realize that your school is full of girls just like...
...known opera tells the story of one Don Giovanni (split-cast between professional actors Joseph Hammer and Graham Wright), who rapes a woman named Donna Anna (Lauren Woo/Alisa Cassola) and kills her father. Donna Anna makes her fiancé, Don Ottavio (Frank C. Napolitano ’04/Philippe Pierce) swear to take revenge on her behalf...
...markings of the Saudi brand of fundamentalist Islam. It was enough to launch Abu Ali on a career in Islamic studies that eventually led him to Saudi Arabia, where he enrolled at a school known for having turned out several militants. Still, his former teachers and classmates swear that he was far from an angry budding young terrorist at I.S.A. They remember him as someone who regularly attended an interfaith group and spoke with "the voice of reason" whenever schoolmates launched into anti-Israel tirades. Yahya Fouz, a former classmate, says, "I remember him telling me that, yes, there...