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Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...
...acts in particular cater to an older crowd: the “Silk Aerial” team of Katherine Schumann Binder and Sasha Nevidonski, who gracefully twist and twirl several feet above the ground by wrapping themselves up in a long, white silk scarf, and the “Tango Acrobatics” of the French team of Sophie Ferrero and Virgile Peyramaure, a painful test of strength as the two balance each other’s bodies while, in stereotypical French fashion, infuse the act with a sexy je ne sais quoi. In another particularly creative act that both...
...Thus was set up what was supposed to be the shocking twist at the end of it all. Face it - we're all sick of Keith and his bumbling and his puppy-dog tears, and once Colby won the old-style Aussie-jailbreak Immunity Challenge by not dropping his lock in the grass, we had to hope it was him. (Rodger, interestingly enough for a 12-year bank president, retained absolutely none of the facts Probst dealt out in the challenge's setup, and basically stumbled around in the night scratching his beard and looking, well, looking like he really...
Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official...
...amusing twist of intertextuality, Colin Firth, known simply as a wet T-shirt to American Austen princesses, is delicious as Darcy. Firth, having previously played Austen’s Darcy in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice television miniseries, returns to romantic hero-dom after playing the discarded husband in both The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love. He silently observes Bridget’s liaisons with the deceptive “Cleave,” slowly revealing his growing tenderness for the girl, until he can take no more. Granted, it’s a role that...