Disaster, Waiting To Happen- May 27, 2004 It's not surprising the networks didn't air the president's speech on Monday. At last week's previews of the upcoming TV season, the big three revealed that they would cut back on summer reruns. And aside from the special-effects addition of blowing up Abu Ghraib prison, there were no more new ideas to be found in Bush's Iraq address than in an old episode of "The Bachelor."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/27/AR2005033112438.html?nav=r... Now and Then: A Hankering for History- May 20, 2004 History is hot. And not just because of Brad Pitt's flying thighs.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/20/AR2005033112553.html?nav=r... Images of Horror, Glimmerings of Hope- May 13, 2004 Ever since the first snapshots of the hooded, wired-up Iraqi on the box we were yearning for some powerful defining image of American goodness to expunge Abu Ghraib's postcards from hell. Instead, we got an image of unfathomable horror and helplessness: Nick Berg decapitated before our eyes. His slaughter happened three days before we saw it, but as he dies and dies again on the video his death will always be in real time.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/13/AR2005033112542.html?nav=r... 'Friends,' Letting The Good Times Roll On and On- May 6, 2004 Since the finale of "Friends" has been declared a national day of mourning, I am trying to whip up an appropriately solemn sense of loss. If NBC can charge up to 2 million bucks for 30-second ad segments, there must be something more going on than the hope that the cast's Special Bond will survive, along with Joey's spinoff. After all, how nostalgic will we feel when "Fear Factor" or "I Want a Famous Face" eventually die their well-deserved deathshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/06/AR2005033112451.html?nav=r... |