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Pasadena 626.300.8200 www.calphil.org APRIL 15 16 DANCEFEVER Swan Lake West Side Story Firebird Suite Lord of the Dance Tequila La Bamba I NVITATIONTOTHE ANCE I NVITATIONTOTHE ANCE Pick up your lifeon Thursdays. CalendarWeekend 03ED158 not billions of years ago, but the first hour (NBC is calling it an so you mistake it for a mini) has about it the here-and-now echoes of the Terri Schiavocase, and the general unease Americans have come to know. While we compensate with orange terror alerts, another recess of our brain wonders whether a deus ex machina is around the corner. then, arrives as a ham-handed referent for these collective anxieties, which lurk in the background of the grandiose sense of religious intrigue. a sign of how Hollywood is craning its neck at the role religion has playedin profitable fictional endeavors such as Da or the series, both of which no doubt had something to do with this show getting on the schedule.

As part of this emerging genre, feels appropriately slick. The high- end production values make it seem like NBC is giving the gift of afeature film, without the need to validate your parking, and Pullman can deliver a good gallows-humor line. But the series is even more unremittingly self-serious than the better one replacing, West where last week, in the season finale, we learned that with any luck the country couldsoon be run by Emmy winners Jimmy Smits and John Spencer. Isuppose the subject the end of us which exactly lend itself to light comedy, or even good weather. begins at the beginning, by which I mean the kind of beginning Hollywood thinks up: Int.

College Classroom. A professor, not given to creation theory, is lecturing on the Big Bang. A studentraises his hand. talk of science creating and destroying the he says. there no room for God in this think room in science for everything and the professor replies, cluding God.

If only He would make Himself If only. Cut to everywhere, it seems, like in a Tom Clancy novel. To a plane bound from Santiago, Chile, to Boston, where onboard we get our first generous glimpse of sardonic squint and fine jaw (he say much, so the jaw kind of becomes a character). Dr. Massey, who apparently has some experience chasing Satanists tangled with the opposing he will murmur), has just helped capture his killer, a messenger of the Devil who cut out the heart.

Meanwhile, on a bus bound for Mt. Chapulta, Mexico, Sister Josepha Montafiore(Na- tascha has a posh English accent, is about to find her latest miracle, a vision of Christ cast in nonexistent shadow on a rock face. Sister Josepha, who is Catholic but who confusingly comes across as a born-again Christian literalistobsessed by the Book of Revelations, works for a foundation. It is the kind of foundation that pays her travel expenses as she searches for signs that the prophecies of the Bible are coming to pass, which is why after Mexico she ends up in Miami, at the bedside of the brain-dead girl speaking the word of God. The hospital and the father, dismissed as someone drinking want to pronounce her dead and harvest her organs; Sister Josepha has other plans, and with a reluctant Dr.

Massey able to spirit the girl away to a convent without ever having to appear on CNN or in a Florida district court. Soon enough, has established Dr. Massey and Sister Josepha as a newfangled Mulder and Scully a man of science, a woman of faith, together A coda onthe DVD sent to critics includes a voiceover saying that their search for signs that Armageddon is already in play will take them to a Greek island, to Rome, to the Holy Land, to Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee. Iguess you can give away that much plot when the nominal source material is the controversial, variously interpreted last book of the Christian scriptures, and when the essential tension this the final battle between God and Satan, or not? remains palpable. Having sat through hours of before reaching the catharsis of a similar, though unresolved, battle between good and evil, I can appreciate Dr.

Massey and comparatively streamlined journey. Created by David Seltzer, who wrote (1976), has plenty of muddled contemporary relevancies weird things happening in Florida, snippets of news footage of war, genocide andsatanic murders. But the series, oddly, loses most of its credibility on smaller suspensions of disbelief, comparatively easy stuff like, what exactly does this guy do for a living? And why is there no security line at the Miami airport? Hollywood, why, where Catholics are more photogenic than the fundamentalist Christians who belong in this story and where all professors work at Harvard. And where the fate of the whole wide world comes down to a good-looking guy and a good-looking girl who need each other as much as the rest of us need them. Good and evil battle in from Page E1 Where: NBC When: 9-10 p.m.

Wednesdays Ratings: TV-14 (may be unsuitable for children under 14) Bill Pullman Richard Massey Natascha McElhone Josepha Montafiore Michael Massee Haden Executive producersDavid Seltzer, Gavin Polone. Writer and creatorDavid Seltzer. Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (April 4-10) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S.

ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 Desperate HousewivesABC25.55 2 American Idol 3 American Idol 4 NCAA Basketball Championship CBS23.89 5 CSICBS22.58 --------------------------------------------6 Survivor: PalauCBS19.75 7 Anatomy 8 LostABC17.12 9 60 MinutesCBS15.69 10 Without a TraceCBS15.46 --------------------------------------------11 HouseFOX15.04 12 to a CBS14.57 13 Apprentice 3NBC13.73 14 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC12.66 15 Amazing Race: 7CBS12.28 --------------------------------------------16 Cold CaseCBS11.78 17 Law OrderNBC11.65 18 The West WingNBC11.62 19 Law Order: Trial by JuryNBC11.38 20 24 --------------------------------------------21 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC10.94 22 Law Order: SVUNBC10.66 23 Two and a Half Men (8:30 p.m.) CBS10.62 24 Crossing JordanNBC10.61 25 Judging AmyCBS10.51 --------------------------------------------26 Life on a StickFOX10.11 27 CSI: NYCBS10.02 28 NCISCBS9.97 29 Dateline: NBC 30 SupernannyABC9.68 --------------------------------------------Two and a Half MenCBS9.68 32 Yes, DearCBS9.67 33 Crimetime SaturdayCBS9.50 34 ERNBC9.38 35 AliasABC9.33 --------------------------------------------36 JAGCBS9.01 37 Third WatchNBC9.00 38 39 40 Blind JusticeABC8.40 --------------------------------------------41 the Camera: Mork and NBC8.35 42 Nanny 911FOX8.33 43 48 Hours MysteryCBS8.21 44 EyesABC8.17 45 According to JimABC8.12 --------------------------------------------Dateline: NBC 47 King of QueensCBS7.93 48 The BachelorABC7.82 49 Is 50 RodneyABC7.75 --------------------------------------------51 Numb3rsCBS7.68 52 Joan of ArcadiaCBS7.30 53 The SimpsonsFOX7.20 54 Primetime LiveABC7.18 55 Funniest Home Videos ABC7.15 --------------------------------------------56 Law Order: Criminal Intent (Sat.) NBC7.05 57 Most WantedFOX7.00 58 Fear FactorNBC6.96 59 Will GraceNBC6.90 60 Dateline: NBC --------------------------------------------61 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: They Do That? ABC6.82 62 The O.C.FOX6.79 63 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX6.66 64 JoeyNBC6.38 65 ContenderNBC6.21 --------------------------------------------66 Simple Life 3FOX6.15 67 Hope FaithABC6.12 68 Wonderful World of Disney ABC5.99 69 8 Simple RulesABC5.94 70 That ShowFOX5.93 --------------------------------------------71 The OfficeNBC5.83 72 My Wife and KidsABC5.78 73 ScrubsNBC5.76 74 8 Simple Rules (8:30 p.m.) ABC5.65 75 George LopezABC5.46 --------------------------------------------76 Extreme MakeoverABC5.38 77 Jake in Progress (8:30 p.m.) ABC5.25 78 WWE 79 Arrested DevelopmentFOX5.19 80 CopsFOX5.17 Anatomy 10 p.m.) ABC5.17 82 Amazing Race: 7 83 Jake in ProgressABC5.08 84 Less Than PerfectABC5.01 85 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX4.91 --------------------------------------------86 Anatomy 9 p.m.) ABC4.84 87 RebaWB4.74 88 Living With Fran (9:30 p.m.) WB4.42 89 Bernie MacFOX4.41 90 Next Top Model 4 UPN4.34 --------------------------------------------91 CharmedWB3.97 92 Tru CallingFOX3.96 93 King of the HillFOX3.87 94 Malcolm in the Middle (Fri.) FOX3.79 95 Will Grace --------------------------------------------96 97 Scrubs (8:30 p.m.)NBC3.39 98 Gilmore GirlsWB3.35 99 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB3.30 100 Blue Collar TVWB3.24 --------------------------------------------101 Living With FranWB3.16 102 SummerlandWB3.05 103 GirlfriendsUPN2.95 104 7th HeavenWB2.92 105 Veronica MarsUPN2.77 --------------------------------------------106 SmallvilleWB2.75 107 24 108 Smallville (9 p.m.)WB2.72 109 StarletWB2.62 110 One on OneUPN2.61 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season to date CBS12.4212.86 ABC9.0210.24 FOX8.389.94 NBC8.349.95 UPN3.063.36 WB2.913.34 Prime-Time TV Rankings By Carolyn Hax Dear Carolyn: Before my husband and I married we discussed kids and, although he admitted never had an overwhelming desire to have any, he knew how much it meant to me and agreed that one would be OK. Fine.

Except that every time it comes up he gets panicky and finds another reason to put it off. 34, 40, so a somewhat limited window. utterly convinced that once we have a baby our lives will end. We will be impoverished, never travel again, etc. Which is ridiculous we are OK financially and have lots of family nearby to help out.

Unfortunately, our friends with kids help. They love to complain that they never have sex anymore, they are always broke, they never get any sleep. Why people ever talk about the wonderful stuff? If so awful, why do most of them have more than one kid? And what can I do to reassure my poor husband it will all be OK? J. They have more than one kid because they were too tired, broke and frustrated to feel like playing with the first kid. Or, they had wonderful reasons you really heard because caught up in the negative things.

Drawing them out is the perfect antidote to hearing too many scary stories about having a child. It help, though, when your problem is that you married one. Your husband either know who he is and what he wants or, worse, knows but have the guts to act on it. Neither one looks flattering on a 40-year-old. Anyone with a spouse, friends and four decades on Earth knows what it means to have kids.

Debating it now is just stalling, and stalling breaks his other promise to you, the tacit one, the one he made when you wed: to treat your happiness as the equal to his own. Let him stall without clear protest, and you break this same promise to him, since no doubt you will grow to resent him. So, kindly, lovingly, firmly demand that he honor this tacit promise by being honest with you. If he want any kids he just lied to keep you or meant it but since has changed his mind he needs to admit that, now. The longer he hides, the narrower your options.

No fair. And if he really does want a child, he needs to realize the stars align and you remain 34. The window limited, it shuts. Maybe not tomorrow, but whenever it wants to, not when you say it does. Plan, budget, plunge.

Dear Carolyn: So do you think deadlines for marriage issues are ever appropriate? Basically, my GF decide if my not believing in her god is a deal breaker. But this has been going on for three years. It seems like at some point to reach a is a conclusion. Anonymous Well said. But before you go, no harm in asking one more time whether made up her mind.

That is, unless the conclusion you reach by her failure to reach aconclusion is that you want to marry someone unable to reach big conclusions. Then, I guess, you just go. Write to Tell Me About It, in care of Washington Post, Style Plus, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071, or e-mail Tell Me About It Husband is stalling on promise to have a child home sweet hom 04ED010 Thursdays.

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