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1999 Stories by Jesse Berrett

• Once in Love With Amy

  published December 29, 1999

  The surprise hit Judging Amy is a kind of woman's standard, in the key of melodrama. More >>

• The Heart of Monday Night

  published November 24, 1999

  The beautiful drama of broadcast football. More >>

• This Sneetch Kills Fascists

  published November 24, 1999

  The wartime propaganda of Dr. Seuss. More >>

• Magnus Mills: All Quiet on the Orient Express

  published November 10, 1999

  Magnus Mills All Quiet on the Orient Express Arcade IN PUBLICITY PHOTOS, Magnus Mills looks... More >>

• Love Bites

  published November 10, 1999

  The unstoppable Jennifer Love Hewitt has the time of her life; viewers don't. More >>

• The Harsher They Come

  published October 27, 1999

  Chris Carter's latest slice of millennial dread, Harsh Realm, takes the fun out of the apocalypse More >>

• Portis' Head

  published October 20, 1999

  The crackpot odysseys of lost American master Charles Portis. More >>

• Age of the Locust

  published October 13, 1999

  How does Hollywood suck? Fox's Action counts the ways. More >>

• Little Red Book

  published October 13, 1999

  Ken Kalfus's new collection does for Russian fiction what his last collection did for the postmodern canon. More >>

• Odd Man In

  published September 22, 1999

  Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends offers a televised tour of American eccentricity. More >>

• Once More, With Feeling

  published September 15, 1999

  Watching Seinfeld six days a week makes one long for the golden age of syndication. More >>

• The Evil That Pop Ironists Do

  published August 18, 1999

  The afterlife cop drama G. vs. E runs up against the mortality of hipness More >>

• A Piece of the Rock

  published July 28, 1999

  Chris Rock returns with Bigger & Blacker, but is he funnier? More >>

• Who the Man?

  published July 28, 1999

  Two new talk shows strip Nineties manhood down to its soiled skivvies. More >>

• After This Commercial Break

  published July 14, 1999

  John Forde's scrappy television show, Mental Engineering, talks back to America's advertisers. More >>

• Schoolhouse Talk

  published July 14, 1999

  University lectures on tape may be the most middlebrow product since Reader's Digest. So what's wrong with that? More >>

• Left for Red

  published July 7, 1999

  William F. Buckley rehabilitates the image of Senator McCarthy; Tony Hiss defends his family name More >>

• The Cable Guy

  published June 23, 1999

  HBO's dramatic series venture beyond the fantasyland of network television. More >>

• The Hi/Lo Country

  published June 9, 1999

  Family Guy's madcap suburban Dada slips on more serious subjects. More >>

• The Red News Diaries

  published May 26, 1999

  A new cable movie revisits the radical romance of Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman. More >>

• Entertainment Forever

  published May 12, 1999

  The robot mother of all celebrity shows soldiers on--with a Hollywood smile. More >>

• Keeping the Faith

  published April 28, 1999

  Slightly off kilter, Englander's stories in his debut volume range all over the map, and slide freely across decades and tones. More >>

• The Fox Hunt

  published April 21, 1999

  Rupert Murdoch's minions chase "reality" with a sympathy for law and order and an appetite for destruction More >>

• Dale Ray Phillips: My People's Waltz

  published April 14, 1999

  Dale Ray Phillips My People's Waltz Norton MATTHEW MCCONNAUGHEY IS so imprisoned by his own... More >>

• House of Payne

  published April 7, 1999

  Fawlty Towers comes to the states, but loses its class in translation. More >>