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Such Lazarus acts, while rare, have become less so lately, with six networks looking for content. CBS picked up its hit JAG from NBC, and the WB just spirited off ABC's teen-witch com, Sabrina. (ABC's psych-ward drama, Wonderland, and on-hiatus Sports Night may also shop themselves around.) But Apatow admits the re-Freaking of TV is a long shot. "If anyone needs to fill an hour with NBC's lowest-rated show," he cracks, "they...
...newest movie The Next Best Thing with a marvelous go-go soundtrack that will cement her status as an excellent singer and producer who occasionally tries to act. The most popular song on the album thus far, and the song most likely to show up in a WB show near you, is Madonna's quite gracious rendition of Don McLean's "American Pie." Everett, in typical gay-best-friend fashion, supports Madonna on backup vocals, a quite painful realization but no detriment to the song. Echoes of Madonna's most recent techno mantra style is quite clear, and William Orbit...
...Last week, I was saddened by the insipidness of the current pop culture scene. So I'm trying to stay positive. I still want to be able to turn on MTV without deconstructing LFO lyrics, to watch the WB without critiquing the dialogue, and to read Entertainment Weekly in the open instead of hiding it between the covers of Jedidiah S. Purdy '97. So instead of dressing in black and writing poetry on the benches outside the Barker Center, I found news of three intriguing scripts that will soon find their way onto a screen near...
...needed. Jimmy on the other hand is an unwilling captive to these larger affairs, especially more so when he is used as a pawn by Gogolak and hitman Frankie Figs (Michael Clarke Duncan) and subsequently falls in love with Cynthia. Throw in bouncy and naked Amanda Peet from the WB's "Jack and Jill" and Rosanna Arquette as Perry's homocidal and snivling wife and you get a complicated plot fraught with misunderstandings and double-dealing...
...surprise to see someone doing a formulaic half-hour comedy knockoff of the WB's successful hourlong teen dramedies. And perhaps it's no surprise that it's the WB doing it. All the elements are here: the hyperactive camera trickery and fantasy sequences practically mugging you for your attention; the pandering barrage of slang and pop-culture references; even a teen-film star--Eddie Kaye Thomas, playing essentially the same smug, sleepy-eyed horndog who was the least appealing part of American Pie. Guess the title Painfully Hip was already taken...