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[Tue, 23 Sep 2003]
The longevity of Law & Order
NYT Magazine, has a
rather long article
talking about how (and why) Law and Order is
still doing so well after so many years (three variants: L&O, L&O- SVU,
L&O- CI are all in the top 20). Even the reruns do well.
One of my long-standing grudges is that nobody has made a TV drama series about engineers. All such drama series are made about doctors, lawyers, politicians etc. So one of my erstwhile roomies [SSS] had a theory that this is because in such professions you can make one-hour episodes where a short-term story (and short-term characters) can be mixed into a longer-running story. I guess this theory will do until I come across a better one. The article claims that one reason for L&O's longevity is that there is *no* longer-running story, unlike ER or West Wing. So every episode is a nice bite-sized pair of 30min long semi-episodes: one about cops and the other about lawyers. As an aside, one of the reasons for this seems that originally L&O was supposed to be telecast in a 30min slot. Mixing cops and lawyers lets you have edgy stuff in the cop part as well as PYTs in the law part, thus covering all demographics. QED.
Yumm!
The guy, in NYT Magazine,
starts off
by mouthing some pseudo-profound fundae about how great recipes "lie hidden in the mind until they emerge of their own volition". I had to look up "frittata" on Webster (unfolded omelet containing chopped veggis and meats, duh!) and I don't have eggs so fresh that they "rise like muffins when you poach them" but the finished food looks good enough (see pg 2) to put up as a screensaver.
RAW officer killed in Kashmir
RAW says
he's the first guy they've lost in Kashmir. Which inspires a lot of
confidence in RAW's record and some worry about the fight against
terrorism in Kashmir. And he was their top guy in Rajouri and Poonch.
Can't resist
No wonder he'll be
riding a hot air balloon
, he's
full of hot air
himself. [With apologies to SSS]