A walking soap opera
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Arts & entertainment: Tori Spelling tells Hadley Freeman about her mink-clad childhood, family feud and becoming a mother.
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âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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As emotion surrounding the AIDS epidemic has inevitably cooled, Paula Vogel's play must stand up to less emotionally inflected scrutiny and, sadly, it often sags.
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Surprisingly âRocky Balboa,â is no embarrassment. Like its forerunners it goes the distance almost in spite of itself.
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Defamation suits, bad press, feuding producers &#151; "Jerry Springer: The Opera" has spawned a behind-the-scenes soap opera to match its onstage melodramatics.
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The most sensational mystery in daytime may be how soap operas are being written at all, considering that nearly all of their writers are guild members on strike.
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Will the chick private dick pick the handsome cop or the immortal vampire romance novelist who will never have crows' feet? Stay tuned for the love triangle in Lifetime's new soap. In Table of Malcontents.
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Despite its star wattage--including Meryl Streep, Vanessa Redgrave and others--the film is a limp look at what might have been
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all.
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Throughout âTime,â Kim Ki-duk flips between soapy melodrama and dry, self-aware comedy. The effect is thrilling and disorienting, like walking on a trampoline.
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Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn&#39;t work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
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The Angels have been here before, and in that they find some solace.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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Akasham marks the introduction Harisree Asokan as the hero. The story takes on terrorism in Kerala but lacks conviction.
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An eagerly prurient dip into the sex-trafficking trough, âTradeâ teeters between earnest exposÃ© and salacious melodrama.
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Of all the consumer goods cluttering your well-appointed home, one that seems relatively innocuous is soap.