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...Jong Il is known for using belligerent histrionics to blackmail his neighbors for the aid he needs to stay in power. He's got the missiles and the million-man army to make threatening gestures credible. The world is keenly aware that the country is a cornered, starving wolf, short of fuel, food and just about everything else. But with a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis still nowhere in sight and Pyongyang stating it is fully capable of making the first military move, the question becomes: is Kim crazy enough to pull the trigger...
...think North Korea has gone beyond merely playing games," says Hideshi Takesada, deputy director of Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies. "Gradually, people are beginning to realize that missiles might soon be flying over their heads." If that happens, all anyone can do is hope the starving wolf of North Korea has a bark worse than its bite...
...only danger I can see in issuing such a strongly worded warning is if nothing happens this time around, the next time there's an alert the government may find people lose attentiveness, or patience, and become less vigilant. It's kind of a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" scenario...
...Wolf says this with a kind of amazement: Don't these people realize TV is a business? It would be too simple, though, to paint him as a bean counter who does nothing for the love of it. Dragnet is a venture of both business and nostalgia; Wolf reminisces about being a cop-smitten tot, getting his parents to let him stay up until 9 p.m. to watch the TV series' debut. But then he shifts gears. "From a business standpoint," he says, "it's hard to launch new names. Everybody knows what Dragnet is. It's a pre-emptive...
...good thing that Wolf's Dragnet is not a slavish copy of the original. However fondly Wolf remembers it, the 1950s version doesn't hold up well, with its establishmentarian stiffness embodied by star-producer Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday. (And that's not counting the camp classic late-'60s revival in which Friday chased hippies on acid.) Casting O'Neill (Married... with Children's Al Bundy) as the new Friday may have raised titters, but O'Neill nails the role, with a hard-bitten empathy that Webb could never touch. The show also makes better use of Friday...