Do not excuse primetime T.V., the violent shows

that challenge anything in the polluted

sea of the cinema. Can’t wait for Mob Boss and its

redeeming message of how the mafia

is bad by blasting away at everyone in the way.

They are just an illusory water park

in the desert wasteland. Oh, for the lush watered land-

scape of Hercule and Miss Marple and all

the other detective shows in the verdant view of PBS

where the murders take place off

stage and the solution is in the solving center stage;

how clever is that!