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Show like Mmm SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, .LIFE director of Vern Swanson, EmmysWs likely the Springville Museum f Tom Jicha - v y 3 of Art It . ' . In Oranges oil on canvas, 1865 Yr I ' " 1 ' V' V X' , v B? J 55 f I; ' . v ;6 v " .1.,.. aft d half-hou- , S)CS mini-clima- x I r . big-tick- et , eanusheraktextra.com i ijf SOUTH FLORIDA The Emmys might never be the same after the 56th edition. The broadcast networks have been chafing at the annual dominance of HBO, so much so that the Television Academy has begun looking into ways to even the playing field. If the broadcasters were upset before, they are liable to be livid by midnight. It is conceivable HBO could run the table in the most prestigious categories best drama and comedy series, outstanding movie and minis-erie- s, as well as the top acting awards in those fields. While a sweep is improbable, HBO surely will garner the majority of the big prizes. The broadcasters' ire is only partially a case of sour grapes; they have some legitimate gripes. HBO and other premium channels have freedoms beyond the liberties in nudity and language. No program has ever been honored solely because it showed flesh or used naughty words. If this were the case, HBO's gratuitously profane "Deadwcod" would be a sure winner in its genre. It's not even a nominee. Far more significant is the ability of subscription channels to tackle controversial subject matter, which would be taboo on advertiser-supportenetworks. . The likes of HBO and Showtime also permit programs to run as as needed to long or short tell the story, rather than dictate r. about 21 minutes per Premium channel movies also don't have to build to a three or four times an hour in front of commercial breaks. Perhaps most significantly, the budgets for premium channel projects are substantially more generous than on a broadcast ' network. Forcing commercial network productions to compete against HBO is as unfair as asking HBO to compete against theatrical films. In other words, this isn't a ' broadcast vs. cable controversy. It's an issue of commercial networks (which includes basic cable) vs. premium channels. If there is to be a change, that is Jikery how the categories would be divided. But that's for the future. This 344-255- fh x for HBO Elyssa Andrus & STYLE EDITOR 2004 "Both were artists for the people . . . not the art establishment." I, More SECTION After trw Prom oil on canvas, 1957 See EMMYS, D4 I On TV Watch the Emmys tonight at 7 on ABC OWl Tombstones: One last cliance O toleaveamark I o craiGS KoricyVann HARTFORD COURANT Call it the ultimate in under- ground humor. For a book published earlier this year, television personality Larry King posed an unusual question to public figures and celebrities:' "How would you like to be after your death?" More than 300 people responded to his query, providing King , with the material for "Remember Me When I'm Gone the Rich ami Famous Write Tteir Own Epitaphs andObiruaries." Last words range from actor . Stacy Reach's lighthearted verse, "Here lies Stacy Keach A Georgia peach Lived at the V beach Now out of reach," and comedian Howie Mandell's last ; laugh, "Is It Me or Is it Dark In , Here?," to f arttjter Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr.'s parting shot, "He Realty Was In , ' mm) Springville Museum of Art exhibit well-know- n From . ; ' . ,l Springville When; through Oct. 24 ' . ' ' i - , j v!, i,S), , , , .'I-,- t , See TOMBSTONES. D4 (." - . 1 ' - .y' E. 400 South, ', ' :? Where: Springville Museum of Art, 126 . - , Norman Rockwell spected in his lifetime, Bved the life that Rockwell might have had if he'd been . . born French in the earhr 19th century. Rockwell and Bouguereau are the Was Norman Rockwell the Thomas of his day crass, cornmer- - K; r !cus of a new, monthlong exhibit open-- f cialized, beneath the regard of the ing this evening with an invHatiortonly or a misunder artistic establishment reception at the Springville Museum of ' stood genius? The same question could Art. v I be asked of William Adolphe ."FrcmBouguereau toonnan . DAILY HERALD 1 Bougucresuto features Wo popular painters whose work is gaining new esteem Cody Clark I . Coefe Adutt$,'$i($3 per person for groups of 10 or more); students and ' children, $2; ages 6 and , younger admlped fre or .Infoj 489-272www.sma.nebo.edu See EXrliwiT( U4 vt 7 |