Show ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March SHERMANS LAGOON A TMtHNS'toorm 2002— B3 11 dlsQf KSNMlfMFOR? smacmg ft®0®vosii®in) NEW YORK(AP) — Time to wish the speakers out with soap: Hus past weekend marked a milestone in televised swearing Several profanities were included in the riveting footage on the CBS ”9-1documentary about the World Trade Center collapse Sunday night die most in memotv for a single primetime broadcast network show And ESPN’s first-evoriginal movie “A Season on the Brink” contained frequent swear words from the lips of actor Brian y portraying basketball coach Bobby Knight — highly unusual for a basic cable network that has avoided profanity in the past Both decisions were debated at length within their respective networks which ultimately said they opted for realism They were notable developments even for a television landscape that has plainly grown coarser over the last few years There was less than one use of rough — not even necessarily profane — language per hour on all the broadcast networks prime-tim- e 1989-9- 0 TV season By the the 0 during season there were nearly five pex hour according to a study by the Parents Television The head of broadcast standards for NBC said he understood CBS’ reasoning “I would have made the same call” said Alan Wurtzel Many of his other decisions! are harder What used to be hard-and-frules for network standards departments aren’t anymore he said “They have really diverged" he said “There are some things I hear on other networks that I’m really suiprised at and I hear from my colleagues that there are things on our network that they are surprised at” The success of HBO’s “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” has increased the cultural pressure on network executives to air rougher material and producers constantly try to push 1" CATHY r N0WIWW6TD f mcrMncoM! xnvosM&i UOSEHIEe t mac mm rr- BElOOtt! MomacoNr moThs on! wonueoN! y - mid i SOME DM9 um NO HUMAN NAMING StAKra SMDDM6 AU (NCR 1W H0U9C ast er m Den-neh- mac on! BEETLE BAILEY things he said If a producer hears something on a Competitor's show they’ll use the example as ammunition Wurtzel said he tries to balance foe sensibilities of conservative viewers and adver' tisers with societal mores ESPN was faced with its language decision when a rough cut of the movie was completed about a month ago ESPN convened focus groups of network viewers with most preferring the profane version said Mark Shapiro an ESPN senior vice president “You couldn’t produce a movie on Bobby Knight and use phrases like ‘aw shucks’ and ‘golly gee’” Shapiro Said “It just wouldn’t be believable" Bozell finds that justification pretty weak “Hollywood has done movies involving probably hundreds if not thousands of people who were known to cuss" he said “Were they doing a disservice by not having them cuss? When was the last time you head people see a movie and say if there was more cussing it would be more realistic?” ESPN decided to offer parents concerned about the language an option It simultaneously aired a version with the swear words bleeped out on ESPN2 — the network’s less visible younger sister Shapiro said the edited version was not offered on ESPN because foe movie had been so relentlessly promoted on foe main network One irony: At the movie’s conclusion ESPN airs footage of the real Bobby Knight — with all his swear words bleeped out ESPN said foe clips came to them with the language already 1999-200- Council During four weeks of viewing in 1989 PTC researchers counted 108 uses of “hell” and “damn" By 1999 there were S18 the group said The language on was much tougher Firefighters are shown staring at the fireball after foe first plane flew into the World Trade Center and repeatedly saying “Holy (expletive)" Firefighters use vivid language to express their anger at the attack At one point the filmmaker is ordered away from the World Trade Center by a police offi-cwho says “This ain’t (expletive) Disney ”9-H- ” HAGAR THE HORRIBLE er Land” Profanity is uttered throughout the footage captured that day by the two French filmmakers who were making a documentary on "What you see is quite limited" said Susan Zirinsky ”9-1executive producer The program’s host Robert De Niro warned viewers at foe outset to expect rough language “This was uncharted territory” Zirinsky said “The language was rough but the circumstances were rough" ' Brent Bozell president of the Parents Television Council said he couldn’t object to the language He compared it to the TV premiere of the movie “Schindler’s List” about the Holocaust sons Bozell said he had his twin watch that movie with him despite foe violence and nudity because he Believed if was so important fire-fighe- rs 1” PEANUTS - Don’t expect the bad language to become a trend at ESPN Shapiro said ‘‘Profanity has never been a fixture in foe past” he said “and it won’t be a fixture in foe full-fron- tal ' removed future” Students’ deaths provide mystery Book review By Qretchen Schwartz For AP Weekly Features since then J have always MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM Uni U UYv mSB1 ewscourl C00KG5' frit foe lake is waiting for the third girl” Goodman’s novel is thoroughly engaging at its onset but becomes weighed down a little by its wordy repetition: Much of the plot revolves around foe deaths of Jane’s childhood friends a story told by several narrators and then reexamined through excerpts from Jane’s jour- “The Lake of Dead Languages” Ballan-tin- e 390 pages $2395) by Carol Goodman In Carol Goodman’s debut novel “The Lake of Dead Languages” Jane Hudson returns to' her alma mater the Heart Lake School for Girls to teach Latin 20 years after she graduat- acouf&owes las' FOXTROT ed nal Her return to this enclave in the Adirondack she endlessly reminds us is to confront her past and fully realize foe tragedy and enduring mystery that have shaped every aspect of her life including her loveless mar- riage and shattered sense of self Thisrprivate school prestigious when Jane was a student has now become a “sort of last resort for a certain kind of girl" This is partly due to its legend of suicide which is in full bloom as Jane “From foe school’s first year however there have been mysterious suicides at Heart Lake I know the harder you try to dispel a legend foe more power it gains ft’s like Oedipus trying to avoid his fete and running headlong into it at foe crossroads And once I begin to talk about foe legend they might ask if there were any suicides when I went to school here Then I would either have to lie or tell them that during my senior year both my roommates drpwned'in this lake I might even find myself telling them that When unexplainable deaths occur among Jane’s Latin students she realizes that suicide and motive aren’t always what they seem It’s a mystery shrouded in secrets and guilt among teen-a- ge girls and creatively enriched by Goodman’s interweaving of Latin and the classics The students have classical names and their eccentricities and setting are given nearly Darwinian descriptions Jane watching her stu- - dents remarks: “From here their dark clothing and dyed hair Athena's Aphrodite’s bleached blond and Vesta’s lavender red make them look like hybrid flowere bred into unnatural shades Past where foe girls sit Heart Lake lies and still in its glacial cradle of lime- - re-ent- ' REAL UFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME blue-bla- ck blue-gre- en 'stone”' The plot twists and the creative conclusion contain the classical and timeless motives pf jealousy and revenge But some readers might find foe limited psychological scope of the characters and their agendas a bit suffocating Win lit bridge "V By Phillip Alder ' f - n Here isanother Wonderful comment I heard on foe television: “It is the group’s first-evdebm album” In today's deal your play at debut trick is foe first-evvital You artfoe declarer in: West leads the three heartseven What would you do? i::v First count your top tricks You have six: three spades ' one heart one diamond and one club Next analyze foe opening lead:-We- st has presumably led st from his longest and strongest Assuming he has you shouM apply! the Rule ofEleven Sevenths value of foe card West led —from 11 isfoun So there are four heiuts above foe seven m foe Norfo East and South hands combined (You v er - 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