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Political
BOOK WORLD KIDSPOST
Bookworm
A storyteller It all adds up
par excellence
The U.S. Census Bureau has a big job this year: Counting the population. C10
Want to get ahead of the nation’s political Jodi Picoult brings her keen
conversation? Check out Book World’s new eye for topical issues (this
RECORDINGS Quick Spins Peter Gabriel’s
MUSIC REVIEW
blog, Political Bookworm, the place for news, time: Asperger’s syndrome)
“Scratch My Back,” Choc Quib Town’s
New name, great potential
information and discussion of political books, at and a deft narrative touch “Oro” and Blake Shelton’s “Hillbilly Bone,”
Thomas Colohan’s National Master
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Chorale shows promise in debut. C5
LIVE TODAY @ washingtonpost.com/discussions Janet Bennett Kelly and Holly Thomas talk fashion Noon • Tom Shales talks TV Noon
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FASHION
Leaving science to ‘CSI,’
Positions
‘Southland’ cops have heart
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very few years, television
takes a giant step forward,
perhaps partly to
compensate for all those other
of power
steps backward. One dependable
area of improvement is the cop
show — the “CSI” shows
represented a major advance in
TOM SHALES
production values, HBO’s
harrowing “The Wire” was On TV
another, and “Hill Street Blues”
was revolutionarily grubby and lily-livered nincompoops!
gritty — and so on, back all the NBC brass feared the show
way to “Dragnet,” essentially a was too depressing in its realism.
leap forward from nothing, since With that kind of antediluvian
there weren’t that many cop attitude, the network managed
shows on the air yet. to insult the viewing public just
“Southland,” set in Los as much as it insulted series
Angeles, is the next great cop creator Ann Biderman and the
show and the next big step — a other talents contributing to
major improvement over the “Southland.” NBC bosses
status quo in content and style. apparently think shows about
Ironically, it’s an advancement fatties shedding pounds are the
that was made and then reversed heaviest fare, ahem, that viewers
by NBC executives — who aired can take.
the first few episodes last year, Despite the brushoff,
then turned peacock-tail and “Southland” is back on television
ran, failing to include the series
among fall starters. Those shales continued on C5
TV PREVIEW
‘Parenthood’? It’s not
all it’s cracked up to be
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circulated among critics last
by Hank Stuever summer but was pulled from
NBC’s fall lineup when cast
The first thing to say about member Maura Tierney was di-
“Parenthood” is a word of sym- agnosed with cancer. (Also, an
pathy to NBC’s faithful Winter NBC Universal vice president for
Olympics audience, who suf- drama dropped dead during a
fered through interminable shooting break on the show’s set
commercials for the new series last year.)
with “Tuesday, March 2, 10/9c” So they reshot chunks of the
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burned inside their eyelids with pilot, replacing Tierney with
a soldering tool, and who by now “Gilmore Girls” actress Lauren
would probably prefer to drink Graham and sprucing up some
paint than watch it. (I’ll toast to of the patter. After re-watching
that.) the movie (still enjoyable), I
The next thing to say about watched both versions of the pi-
the show is to admit that there’s lot, an exercise that took on the
not much to say about it, but grim pall of an autopsy. The dra-
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plenty of material to puzzle over: matic parts don’t move and the
There’s Ron Howard’s 1989 funny parts don’t laugh. Packed
movie, which starred Steve Mar- with appealing actors (Peter
tin, Jason Robards and Dianne Krause in the Martin role; Craig
Wiest and has had a nice, long T. Nelson in Robards’s paterfa-
afterlife on cable movie chan- milias role), this new “Parent-
nels. hood” is boring, disorganized
Two decades later, there was a
dreary “Parenthood” pilot that tv preview continued on C5
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by Robin Givhan
in Milan
he great strength of the Italian fashion industry is
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its ability to speak so eloquently and demo-
cratically to a woman’s many strengths. The design-
ers who presented their fall 2010 collections here
focused on intellectual rigor, sexual power and professional
strength. They did so without judgment, never suggesting
that one was more valuable than the other. Italian fashion,
so embraced and idealized by American consumers, is
unique in its unabashed belief that those three aspects of a
woman’s character can easily and naturally coexist. DAYNA SMITH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
American designers tend to believe that business attire
and sexual provocation should not intermingle. And that
fashion’s intellectual considerations are best left to a niche
market of academics, artistic savants and eccentrics. The
‘Love & War’:
Italians are not such fashion separatists. Some designers
speak more eloquently and enthusiastically on one or more 6. 7.
of these cultural issues, but they are all participants in the
DeVaughn on Gaye’s
PHOTOS BY MARIA VALENTINO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
same conversation. In other words, sexuality cannot and
MAKING A MOVE: For fall, designers’ lines exuded smarts,
should not be removed from the workplace. And the best de-
sex appeal, confidence and influence: Bottega Veneta (1 and 6); ground. Page C3
signers are the ones who find — or at least seek — new and
Prada (2 and 4); Armani (3); Jil Sander (5 and 7).
thoughtful ways in which to
allow the full force of a wom- fa shion continued on C9
by Sarah Godfrey
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