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D8 TVadio The Boston Globe TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2000 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 TV Radio Critic's Corner 'Mr. Wroe's' is quirky, poignant if 10 and at 12:35 a.m. on Channel 5. (Closed-captioned) "Judge Hatchett" at 12:30 p.m. on Channel 25.

Addicted mother. "Ricki Lake" at 1 p.m. on Channel 38. Paternity test results. "Dr.

Laura" at 1 p.m. on Channel 50. Maintaining family peace. "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" at 2 p.m. on Channel 38.

Fighting. "Inside Edition" at 3 p.m. on Channel 10 and at 7 p.m. on Channel 5. (Closed-captioned) "The Tim McCarver Show" at 3 p.m.

on NESN. "Sports Innervlew" at 3:30 p.m. on NESN. "Rosle O'Donnell" at 4 p.m. on Channel 4 and at 5 p.m.

on Channel 6. Sean Connery; Ashton Kutcher; Linda Eder. (Closed-captioned) "Oprah Winfrey" at 4 p.m. on Channels 5 and 10. Ask Dr.

Phil. (Closed-captioned) "Michigan Replay" at 4 p.m. on NESN. "EXTRA" at 4:30 p.m. on Channel 7 and at 7 p.m.

on Channel 10 and at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 9. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Greater Boston" at 7 p.m. on Channel 2 and at 12 a.m.

on Channel 44. (Closed-captioned) "Chronicle" at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 5. Main Streets, Back Roads Peacham, Vermont. Former foreign-service officer; anti-war protester; loons; violin.

(Closed-captioned) "60 Minutes II" at 9 p.m. on Channels 4 and 12. Bill Gates gives away a fortune; a 10-year-old genius enters college; James Taylor. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Sports LateNight" at 11 p.m.

on NECN. "Late Show With David Letter-man" at 11:35 p.m. on Channels 4 and 12. Madonna. In stereo.

(Closed-captioned) "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" at 1 1 :35 p.m. on Channels 7 and 10. Ben Affleck; Rodney Dan-gerfield; music by P.O.D. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Politically Incorrect With Bill Manor" at 12:05 a.m.

on Channels 5, 6, and 9. D.L Hughley; Angie Everhart; Michael Graham; Sara Evans. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 4 and 12.

Beau Bridges; Emilie De-Ravin; discussion with Martin Mull, Rod Roddy, and Mike Grayson. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10. Brian Williams; Amber Valletta; John Wesley Harding.

(Repeat) In stereo. (Closed-captioned) TALK SHOWS "Tha Early Show" at 7 a.m. on Channels 4 and 12. Placido Domingo; Martha Stewart; gifts for men; toys. In stereo.

(Closed-captioned) "Good Morning Amarlca" at 7 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9. (Closed-captioned) "Today" at 7 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10 and at 10 a.m. on Channel 7.

Chris O'Donnell; holiday cooking; pet advice; breast cancer. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "First Bualnesa" at 7 a.m. on Channel 50. "Maury" at 8 a.m.

on Channel 56 and WPIX. Violent teens torment their families. (Closed-captioned) "Martha Stewart Living" at 9 a.m. on Channel 4 and at noon on Channel 64. Lorraine Bracco.

"Sally Jesiy Raphael" at 9 a.m. on Channels 5 and 12. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Llvel With Regit" at 9 a.m. on Channel 7 and at 10 a.m.

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(Closed-captioned) "Susan Wornick Consumer Show" at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on NECN. "Montel Williams" at 10 a.m. on Channels 12 and 25.

Incompetent mother. (Closed-captioned) "Maury" at 10 a.m. on Channel 56 and WPDC Mothers' sexy attire. (Closed-captioned) "The View" at 1 1 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9.

Lily Tomlin; author Iyanla Vanzant. (Closed-captioned) "HouseCalls" at 11 a.m. and at 11:30 a.m. on Channel 7, and at 2 p.m. on Channel 64, and at 4 p.m.

and at 4:30 p.m. on Channel 50. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" at 11 a.m. on Channel 10.

Disciplining children. "Jenny Jones" at 1 1 a.m. on Channel 56 and at 1 p.m. on Channel 64. Lie-detector tests.

"Ricki Lake" at 11 a.m. on Channel 64 and at 5 p.m. on Channel 38. Teen motherhood. (Part 1 of 2) "The Last Word" at 11:30 5:30 p.m.

and at 11:30 p.m. on FSNE. (Repeat) "Judge Hatchett" at noon on Channel 25 and at 11:35 p.m. on Channel 64. Betrayal; battery.

(Repeat) (Closed-captioned) "Charlie Rose" at noon on Channel 44 and at 11 p.m. on Channel 2. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Access Hollywood" at 12:30 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m.

on Channel By Michael Blowen GLOBE STAFF If William Faulkner had been born near Oxford University instead of in Oxford, he might have come up KCVI6W with something akin to Jane Rogers's difficult, complex, and ultimately exhilarating "Mr. Wroe's Virgins." At first, it seems that this miniseries is like so many others a period piece with all the costumes, furniture, and settings perfectly controlled by a set designer worthy of Martha Stewart But, like so much of this well-honed work, it plays with our expectations. Mr. Wroe (Jonathan Pryce) is a messianic prophet baying at his congregation about the end of the world. One day, out of the blue, he tells his followers that they must supply him with seven virgins.

They do. Spinning off from this 1830 historical incident, Rogers imagines a microcosmic world of fundamentalist religion as dangerous as it is inviting. It is raw and rough and nasty and beautiful. The women emerge with complex identities forged from scorching rhetoric and terrifying repression. Director Danny Boyle, using the structure of the novel, divides the film into four separate stories Leah, Joanna, Hannah, Martha.

Certain elements overlap, cut back, and are interwoven into all four episodes. If too bad that the Sundance Channel is not showing "Mr. Wroe's Virgins" in one block because, given our memory lapses, if tough to appreciate the subtle changes in the stories from week to week. If easy to sympathize with the fate of the powerless women conduct trial, refuses to implicate the guilty Mr. Wroe, she speaks larger truths about believers and atheists, shadows and light, and fire and darkness.

If as eloquent a testimony as you're ever likely to hear made more powerful by all the agony that precedes it. The original airing of "Mr. Wroe's Virgins" occurred on the BBC in 1993, three years before Boyle's breakout film, Trainspotting." It would seem that a film dealing with the life of an English zealot would be perfect for PBS's "Masterpiece Theater." Perhaps "Mr. Wroe's Virgins" is too artful, too sexual, and too controversial for the rarefied tastes of WGBH. It does contain frontal nudity and graphic scenes of sexual violence.

But no one in his right mind could ever think of them as erotic or exploitative. In this holiday season, if an unconventionally spiritual film and a brilliant work of art One last thing: Many local cable companies dont carry the Sundance Channel. Apparently, there's room for several home shopping channels but no room for some of the best television around. If you cant get it on your system, call and complain. Talk of the dial 6:20 un.

WUMB-FM (9L9) "Writer's Almanac" with Garrison Keillor. Topic Important events on this date In history from a literary perspective. 11 cm. WBUR-FM (90.9) "The Connection" with Christopher Lydon. Guest: Ricki Lee Jones, Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter.

Other radio highlights 10 p-m. WBCN-FM (1040) Live broadcast of U2's performance from Irving Plaza in New York City. Evan Rachel Wood of "Once and Again," on Channel 5 tonight at 10. The 11th annual "Billboard Music Awards" celebrates the top artists of the year in sales and airplay, at 8 on Ch. 25.

Scheduled performers include, of course, Sync and Ricky Martin. Also, Randy Newman will be presented with the Century Award. As Rick's daughter Jessie, Evan Rachel Wood has been incredible this season on "Once and Again." The young actress has made Jessie's emotional implosion painfully real. Tonight, Jessie's dwindling appetite can no longer be ignored, and the episode revolves around Rick and his ex-wife's efforts to help her. It's an after-school-special premise, but the show manages to avoid eating-disorder cliches and pat solutions.

Series co-creator Ed Zwick makes his acting debut as the broken family's dynamic therapist, at 10 on Ch. 5. MATTHEW GILBERT iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiii Shula Reinharz: a fund raising powerhouse at 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 i 1 1 1 Brandeis iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Mr. Wroe's Virgins A BBC miniseries directed by Danny Boyle. Written by: Jane Rogers and based on her novel.

Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Minnie Driver, Kerry Fox, Kathy Burke, and Lia Williams. Time: Tonight at 9 and Sunday night at 1 1 for four consecutive weeks on the Sundance Channel. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII tossed into Mr. Wroe's world of psychosexual torment but these souls arent as helpless as they first appear. Leah (Minnie Driver), whose story we hear first, isnt even a virgin.

She seems relieved to be out of her parents' rigid grasp. Joanna (Lia Williams) is a true believer and Hannah (Kerry Fox) is a nonbeliever. Martha, already subjected to sexual abuse by her father, is so conditioned to accept male carnal brutality that before Mr. Wroe has even finished a suggestive sentence she pulls her skirt over her head. It would be easy to make each of these characters nothing more than mouthpieces for debate religion vs.

science, determinism vs. free will, male vs. female. But that would be too simple and very wrong. One of the rare accomplishments of "Mr.

Wroe's Virgins'' is that it never falls for stereotyping. Just as the sexually deviant Mr. Wroe seems to slip into the one-vice-fits-all box, he says something illuminating that transforms our preconceptions. It seems that the primary goal of Rogers and of Boyle is to destroy the intellectual convenience of the absolute. When Martha, testifying before the elders in his sexual mis GLOBE STAf PHOTOBIU.

GREENE Shula Reinharz says she ignored sniping about her project: "You cant expect to create change without a reaction." her own. (Now that she has one, she calls it "my Reinharz wanted new space for offices for the Brandeis women's studies program, which she directs, since the old offices were small and crowded. She wanted new space for the cramped Hadas-sah International Research Institute on Jewish Women, which she founded and codirects. She wanted more space for the overcrowded Scholars Program, which she also founded, and which brings together 45 writers and researchers in different fields, all focused on women's lives. And she wanted space for something else, something innovative and experimental.

She pictured a hybrid of a building where scholars and researchers could meet, exchange ideas, read, do art, play music, even dance all under one roof. "If you walk onto a campus and see this enormous science complex and enormous gymnasium and then, over in a corner somewhere is a dilapidated women's studies center, you get a sense of what that university's values are," says Reinharz. "Values can be ex "OJBUMbI i REINHARZ Continued from Page Dl spoon, a Longmeadow-based real estate owner and manager. "He is so impressed with her work. She did not let this die.

She is just one cell of focused energy." To be sure, the new Women's Studies Research Center is no trash bin, though some say it looked like one before Reinharz got hold of it "It was a storeroom for facilities operations, for nuts and bolts and electrical fittings and little plumbing stuff," says Peter French, Brandeis executive vice president and chief operating officer. "It was a hardware store in 9,000 square feet" "It was really a dump, a warehouse with a concrete floor. No one wanted it," Jehuda Reinharz said in a speech to the 400 academics, scholars, and donors who turned out for a festive Nov. 19 opening celebration for the center. In a mere three years, the warehouse was transformed into a stunning venue with high ceilings and skylights, elegant upholstery, a salon, a grand piano, a rotating art exhibit even a mirrored dance studio with a ballet barre and a playroom for scholars' children.

But such is the impact, the force of will, of Shula Reinharz. Her friend and donor Harold Grinspoon is almost rhapsodic when he talks about her. "Shula is a remarkable woman with vision and courage and charisma and determination," he says. "I mean, she is awesome. She has a genius for bringing people together and making them feel good about doing something beneficial for the community.

I am a contributor, and I feel great about what I accomplished. She helped me feel good about myself Virginia Woolf wrote of the need for women to have a room of their own. Forget that; Reinharz decided she needed a building of that high-energy thing." "If my metabolism," reflects the amiable Reinharz on a recent Sunday evening, sprawled on a sofa in the official Brandeis presi-denf home in Newton. She says her interests include "occasionally" cooking, aerobics, and dancing. And I hoove crossword puzzles," she says.

"When I was in third grade, my teacher wrote on my report card that I had "a tendency to visit." Some people are lethargic, but I need to do things all the time," says Reinharz who paradoxically describes herself as a "pretty relaxed" person. "People ask me how I manage: What I tell them is I do one thing, and then I do the next" And another thing The second observation about Reinharz is her confidence level. You notice it in the way she can talk about her work and ideas for three hours, with barely a pause. And her confidence is contagious. "She is very, very vivacious, and she energizes you and you want to get involved," says philanthropist Lorna Rosenberg.

Tve always felt I could achieve anything. I didnt feel limited as a girl," Reinharz says. She attributes this partly to the fact that she was the oldest of three children, but suspects another factor was the way she was doted upon as a child. She explains that her grandparents, who survived the Holocaust, were friends with other survivors who did not have children of their own. "Many of those people adopted me," says Reinharz.

"I called lots and lots of people 'aunf and I had so many people who cared about me, lots of extra grandparents and lots of extra love." She tells another pivotal story from her childhood: how as a 5-year-old she took apart the family toaster to figure out how it works. Challenges dont intimidate her. "I like reading instruction booklets," Reinharz says. "I like to know how dinner parties are given, how universities are built" (From this follows another Reinharz principle, namely Teach others how to do But there is also a quality of restlessness about Reinharz, a third observation about her char- -acter. If it were a principle, it motivational principles such as "Don't be embarrassed to talk about money" (To beat around the bush and pretend if not relevant doesnt make any "Keep in touch with your "Always go for the top" when soliciting help, "even if they seem way out of range at and "If somebody says "Yes, go for it: Always focus on the yes." There are also a few random principles, harder to categorize, such as her rule to "Photograph everything." Reinharz rarely goes anywhere without her 35mm Olympus, and takes pictures of everyone she meets so she can remember their faces if she meets them again.

Three hugger She applies still another strategy several times during the course of an interview. Whenever possible, answer questions "by dividing your answer into three components," she says. "It gives you time to organize a response, it compels the person to pay attention, and it sounds more intelligent than only having one answer." Perhaps if the power of suggestion, but spend enough time with Shula Reinharz and her personality seems to divide into three components. The first is her extraordinary energy level She raised the money for the research center and oversaw its design and construction while administering the women's studies program, overseeing both the scholars program and the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women; at the same time she was teaching and working on four academic books. She and Jehuda are also the parents of two daughters, Yael, 23, a graduate student at New York University; and Naomi, 19, a sophomore at Brown University.

"She has always had enormous energy and tons of ideas," says Jehuda, who met Shula when she was 15 and he was 17, in high school in River Edge, J. "She sleeps very little. If been that way from the day I met her." "She is always running around smiling and very enthusiastic about what is going on," says Naomi. "She has energy for so many things even the smallest thing, like cooking dinner. When I came home for Thanksgiving, she immediately wanted to take me over to the research center and show it to me.

Then she showed it to me corner by corner, every aspect of the building, every little detail that no one would ever think about, like why they decided to paint each office purple but Ihe opposing wall yellow. She detnitely has pressed through architecture. When women can walk into a building and say, This is for us, to nurture our this is an enormous, dignified statement" Reinharz was first drawn to the discipline of women's studies as a sociology graduate student at Brandeis. She recalls that virtually none of her assigned readings mentioned women sociologists, and how there was only one female faculty member in the department. "I felt that sociology had done an inadequate job of understanding women's lives, and if I wanted to be a good sociologist I had to do women's studies," says Reinharz, whose academic specialties include the accomplishments of women missing from history.

(The most recent of her four books is "Feminist Methods in Social Research," published in 1992 by Oxford University Press.) So determined was she to build a women's research center that she barely blinked at the obstacles. The board of the women's studies program initially dismissed her idea as unrealistic and told her she was aiming too high. The first Brandeis administrator she consulted told her the only way she could do it was to find some unused space. (The catch was, there wasnt any.) The next one agreed to the project only if she came up with the money for it herself. "It seemed very audacious for a faculty member to raise the money and design a building," acknowledges Reinharz, who also teaches undergraduate sociology at Brandeis.

Tm not afraid of a challenge. I decided to raise all the money, every single penny. I knew I could doit" To some at Brandeis, it also seemed audacious if not the height of chutzpah for the wife of the university's president to be raising money for a pet cause especially when Brandeis is embarking on a major capital campaign, when space is at a premium, and faculty offices are in short supply. "It is fair to say there are components on campus who would like to be housed similar space," says executive vice president and chief operating officer Peter French, measuring his words carefully. "It certainly hasnt been a disadvantage that Reinharz is the president's wife, by any means.

But if she didnt have the fund-raising ability to articulate her program, she couldn't have done it. I dont care who she is married to." Reinharz has heard the sniping, too, but prefers to ignore it "You have to keep on going," she says, shifting into sociologist mode, "You cant expect to create Personal file Shula Reinharz Bora June 17, 1946, Amsterdam Emigrated 1948 She and her future husband met Oct 2, 1961, in River Edge, J. "He moved to the US from Germany on Oct The next day, he moved in with his uncle, who lived in my town, and went to my schooT He spoke only German and Hebrew, she spoke both. Married Nov. 26, 1967, New York City Academic degrees Sociology degree, Barnard College, 1967; PhD, sociology, Brandeis University, 1977 Academic posts Simmons School of Social Work, 1970; psychology department, University of Michigan, 1972-82 (began teaching women's studies, 1979); Brandeis (1982 to present).

Became full professor, 1991 Founded Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women, 1997. FoundedWomen's Studies Research Center, opened Nov. 19, 2000. Where she gets her determination Has seen "many people who have done amazing things. My mother and my father, who survived the Holocaust by hiding, in Holland, and kept their sanity and sense of humor.

My husband: He came to this country without a penny and now he's president of a university." An Kcompfished wr out Ml she says is missing from history Manya Wilbushevitz Shohat, founder of the first kibbutz (Palestine, 1907). What she worries about that she can do nothing about "The epidemic of breast cancer." Her idea of fun "Dancing! Whatever the music is. Folk dancing, Caribbean, ballroom, rock. What I don't know I would like to learn." change without a reaction." The relentlessly upbeat attitude is vintage Reinharz. Among her guiding "principles" in life are: "see the glass as half-full" and "dont speak ill of other people." There is very little in Reinharz's life that doesnt come down to one of her 25 or so principles that guide her professionally and personally and that she has saved on her computer.

Some are nuts-and-bolts administrative principles such as "Do not have unnecessary meetings" eat up time," she says); "Always cosponsor, if possible" (The turnout is and "Celebrate accomplishments publicly and joyously." They include fund-raising and would he "Don't rest nn vi4 vr vu acau Where to go for funky, off-beat Christmas gifts. Today Get the details on NECN rels." There's always the next chal- lenge, the next idea, the next face to photograph. "Hike to be an innovator, and to have Brandeis's women's studies be an incubator for new ideas," she says and then laughs. "I clearly have to find a new toast-.