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Even some of the more Afrocentric netlet shows might get past the perception that they are no-whites-need-watch zones if their networks didn't bolster it by scheduling them in blocks. UPN's Girlfriends (Mondays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.) has well-written black, white and biracial characters and a sophisticated take on race. Originally a salty, derivative takeoff on Sex and the City, it has matured into a perceptive look into the inner lives of four thirtyish black women. Creator Mara Brock Akil doesn't buy, though, that it's too "inside" for white viewers. "Look at Will...
...jobs. He's made about 10 movies in the past two years--he has trouble remembering exactly how many--and one of them, Sam Mendes' soon-to-be-released The Road to Perdition, which stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, is a high-profile enterprise. And, one imagines, a well-written...
...divorces. If family life is worth saving, she says, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Says blurber Pepper Schwartz, author and Ph.D., "Wifework is a welcome corrective to the saccharine over-sentimentalization that seems to be sweeping the United States right now...Her well-written and well-documented book shows how much work being a wife really is and how much inequity is still accepted in modern marriage...
...borealis, and it was the British that scoffed at Birkeland’s theories and dismissed his work in the early 1900s. The Northern Lights recounts Birkeland’s life-long journey through the still-fledgling fields of electromagnetism and solar astronomy. Jago’s book, although well-written and interesting, fails to rise to the level of “thrilling” that the publisher touts...
...movie (“Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good”) may underscore some of the potential problems with Riding in Cars in its newest incarnation. Often the striking and memorable features of a biography or autobiography are inexorably tied to the words themselves. A well-written passage can provide even the most seemingly banal details of an ostensibly unremarkable life with a unique glow. Of course, all of the advantages of the written medium are lost when a book is converted into a film. To be sure, the motion picture medium can do many things that...