The Boston Globe TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2004 F8 TVRadio lllllllllllltlMIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIilllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltillinilllllHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII TV, Radio, Online 'Color Line' takes country's pulse Brian McKnight performs. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Sharon Osbourne Show" at 11 a.m. on Channel 56; 1 p.m. on WPIX; 1:30 a.m.
on Channel 64. Actor David Boreanaz author Aisha Tyler actor Vinnie Jones (The Big In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Jerry Springer" at 1 1 a.m. on WPDC; noon on Channel 56. A woman is determined to steal her friend's man; a man reveals the affair to his lover's girlfriend; a pregnant woman's boyfriend cheated on her with her friend.
In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Good Day Live" at noon on Channel 25; 1 p.m. on Channel 64. "Charlie Rose" at noon and 6 p.m. on Channel 44.
Filmmaker Bernardo Berto-lucci; architect Santiago Calatrava. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Maury" at noon on WPDC; 1 p.m. on Channel 56. Parents seek help with then-wild, destructive children.
(Closed-captioned) "Dr. Phil" at 3 p.m. on Channel 5 p.m. on Channel 6. "Oprah Winfrey" at 4 p.m.
on Channels 5, 9, and 10. (Closed-captioned) "On Air With Ryan Seacrest" at 4 p.m. on Channel 25. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "New England Business Day" at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
on NECN. "Greater Boston" at 7 p.m. on Channel 2. Rana Abdul-Aziz, who has been living in Massachusetts since she was 7, returns to Iraq to see how her native country is faring in a post-Saddam Hussein regime. (Closed-captioned) "Chronicle" at 7:30 p.m.
on Channel 5. Main Streets and Back Roads of New HampshireMount Monadnock. (Closed-captioned) "NewsNight With Chet Curtis" at 8 p.m. on NECN. "Late Show With David Letterman" at 11:35 p.m.
on Channels 4 and 12. Musician Harry Connick Jr. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" at 11:35 p.m. on Channels 7 and 10.
Actor Kurt Russell; 5-year-old commercial actor; Five for Fighting perform. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Tavis Smiley" at midnight on Channel 2. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Sharon Osbourne Show" at midnight on Channel 56.
Actor Eric Roberts Than actor Erik Estrada Surreal writer Holly Millea. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Jimmy Kimmel Live" at 12:05 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9. Guest cohost Kathie Lee Giffbrd.
In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Late Late Show With Craig Kil-born" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 4 and 12. Presidential candidate Dennis Kucin-ich; actress Jane Seymour; model Petra Nemcova; comic Gerry Dee. In stereo.
(Closed-captioned) "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" at 12:35 a.m. on Channels 7 and 10. TV personality Al Roker; actress Mischa Barton; Mindy Smith performs. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) TALK SHOWS "The Early Show" at 7 on Channels 4 and 12.
South Carolina primary race; actress Samantha Morton In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Good Morning America" at 7 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9. Author Sean Hannity Us From chef Wolfgang Puck. (Closed-captioned) "Today" at 7 a.m.
on Channels 7 and 10; 10 a.m. on Channel 7. Harry Con-nick Jr. performs; author Kathryn Black Without a In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Martha Stewart Living" at 8 a.m.
on Channel 64. (Closed-captioned) "Life Today" at 8:30 a.m. on Channel 68. With James Robison. In stereo.
(Closed-captioned) "Living It Up! With AH Jack" at 9 a.m. on Channels 4 and 6. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The John Walsh Show" at 9 a.m. on Channels 5 and 11 a.m.
on Channel 10. Videotapes show the California wildfires and the beating of inmates at a New Jersey prison. "Live With Regis and Kelly" at 9 a.m. on Channel 10 a.m. on Channel 10.
Wedding Week. Actor Cedric the Entertainer 2: Back in the winning couple tell their love story. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "Martha Stewart Living" at 9 a.m. on Channel 38.
(Closed-captioned) "Jerry Springer" at 9 a.m. on Channel 56 and WPDC A woman sleeps with her daughter's lover; a woman sleeps with her former boyfriend to find out if she is still harboring feelings; family members try to convince a couple to leave the Ku Mux Klan. In stereo. (Closed-captioned) "The Wayne Brady Show" at 10 a.m. on Channels 5 and 2 p.m.
on Channel 64. Actor George Eads Crime Scene actor John Amos About the Marjorie Johnson bakes with actor James Hyde Deborah Gibson performs. (Closed-captioned) "Montel Williams" at 10 a.m. on Channel 12; 3 p.m. on Channel 25.
Married couples have beaten the odds and stayed together in spite of traumas in their lives. (Closed-captioned) "Ricki Lake" at 10 a.m. on Channel 38; 11 a.m. on Channel 64. The audience votes on whether guests are having affairs; lie detectors reveal the truth.
(Closed-captioned) "Maury" at 10 a.m. on Channel 56 and WPIX. Updates on the most memorable guests. (Closed-captioned) "Ask Rita" at 10:30 a.m. on Channel 64; 12:30 a.m.
on Channel 50. New York. "The View" at 1 1 a.m. on Channels 5, 6, and 9. Actor Kelsey Grammer Kelly Jo Kuharski (The In stereo.
(Closed-captioned) "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" at 11 a.m. on Channel 3 p.m. on Channel 10; 4 p.m. on Channel 50. Actress Katey Sagal Simple show host Chris Harrison (The month that the network would try to relaunch the freshman series in March, "Karen Sisco" has been shown the door.
Three completed episodes have not aired; it's unclear whether they'll ever see the light of day. "Karen Sisco" starred Carla Gugino as a federal marshal working in Miami. The series, despite a solid lead-in from "The Bachelor," regularly got creamed by "Law Order" on Wednesday nights and averaged about 7.6 million viewers a week over its seven episodes. KNIGHT RIDDER Globe on NECN Here's what's happening on "Around the Globe" today on NECN: 12:30 p.m.: "Globe at Home" 4 p.m.: "Around the Globe" 6:30 p.m.: "New England Business Day" 8 p.m.: "NewsNight" Schedule is subject to change. Talk of the dial 8:35 a.m.
WBIX-AM (1060) "Early Exchange" with Dave Anthony Bonnie Bleidt. Guests: Bruce Cole, executive director, Boston Rental Property Association; Niksa Kastrapeli. Other radio highlights 8 a.m. WGBH-FM (89.7) "Classics in the Morning." Dvorak's "My Home" Overture; Haydn's Symphony No. 50; Pinkham's Concerto for Celesta and Harpsichord; Stanford's Symphony No.
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 15; Nielsen's Violin Sonata No. Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3. 9 a.m.
WCRB-FM (102.5) Mozarfs Piano Concerto No. Haydn's Symphony No. 103, "Drum Roll''; Brahms's Haydn Variations. Noon WUMB-FM (9L9) "Live at Noon" with Marilyn Rea Beyer. Guest: Dave Der-sham.
8 p.m. WHRB-FM (95.3) "Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Concert." By Ray Richmond HOLLYWOOD REPORTER LOS ANGELES -You shouldn't think of "America Beyond the Color Line" as one of those stuffy PBS af-ReVieW fairs that takes a de- tached, scholarly view of its subject. It's a vital, sobering, and fascinating series of four vibrant hour-long films (presented over two nights) that take the pulse of black America. Its refreshing informality is a credit to its writer and host, Henry Louis Gates the acclaimed scholar who heads up the Afro-American Studies department at Harvard and in this PBS project is deceptively unassuming in the way he gently probes beneath the surface to uncover the real story. Gates is a genius at putting his subjects at ease.
He's dUsarmingly low-key while going about these rounds, introducing himself as "Skip" Gates and acting almost like the late Charles Kuralt to glean the maximum information with the minimum (visible) effort The four-parter chronicles Gates's travels just him and his cameraman as he measures the social, political, and economic heartbeat of the contemporary black experience in the new millennium. What he finds is alternately disturbing and encouraging. Gates's journeys to four regions of the country begin in that one-time hotbed of institutional bigotry and the civil rights movement: the South. In interviews with the likes of Morgan Freeman and Maya Angelou, he finds a place that has changed a great deal since the 1960s changed so much that many black Americans are moving back from the north to America Beyond the Color Line On: PBS, Ch. 2 Time: today and tomorrow, 9-11 p.m.
be closer to their roots. Yet as a visit to Atlanta shows, segregation is still alive and well, in black-dominated enclaves as well as white. During the second hour, Gates pays a visit to Chicago and discovers poverty and despair in the black community at an all-time high, despite the growth of a black middle class. Hour three highlights Gates's travels to the East Coast, where he focuses on a small group of black men (Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons among them) who have carved out a niche among the ranking power elite. Thermal installment, set in -LA, is a probing assessment of "black Hollywood" and the role that race plays in the film industry and among the power players in entertainment Gates sits down with Chris Tucker (at his cavernous San Fernando Valley mansion), Quincy Jones, Don Cheadle, Samuel L.
Jackson, and others in a disarmingly candid overview. The bottom line will surprise almost no one: Yes, indeed, race plays a major role in showbiz. 'Karen Sisco' is officially over Coming soon to Trio's "Brilliant but Canceled" series of resurrections: "Karen Sisco," upon which the other tasteful high-heeled shoe has now officially dropped. Despite public statements from ABC's top executives last always felt we never really fit in anywhere." Actually, Incubus is selling itself short with that remark. The group is the only act to have played all of rock's most important festivals in the past few years Sno-Core, Ozzfest, Lollapalooza, and Moby's Area: One Tour.
Yes, Incubus has sometimes stood apart musically with its arty metal-funk slant, but fans who appreciate honest rock 'n' roll have embraced the band at every stop, including Incubus's own arena tour that hit the Worcester Centrum Centre last year. (The group tours arenas again starting in June, after a spring tour of Japan, Thailand, and Malaysia.) The new disc, featuring new bassist Ben Kenney (formerly of the Roots), vents not only with its energy but with its lyrics. The single "Megalomaniac," which includes swooping power chords and double-time drum bursts, is an apparent swipe at political leaders: "You're no Jesus, yeah, you're no expletive Elvis Wash your hands clean of yourself baby and step down." Einziger says, "It's written about people who try to tell you how to lead your life." "Incubus is a band of substance," says Oedipus, program director for Boston's WBCN-FM. "They keep growing and developing. They're not one of those here today, gone tomorrow groups." The album also takes shots at talk-show hosts in Talk Shows on Mute" and offers an antiwar message in "Made for TV Movie." But there are also some unadulterated love songs, notably "Here in My Room," that further suggest Incubus cannot be pinned down musically or lyrically.
That's the sign of a great band. On new CD, Incubus picks up the tempo What to do about being mistaken Critic's Corner Zach Br aff stars in "Scrubs," in its new 9:30 p.m. time slot on Channel 7. CBS is reairing the "Survivor: All-Stars" premiere at 8 p.m. on Channel 4.
Lex's tattoos get kicked off the island. Chloe's baby is looking pretty suspicious on "24." Perhaps the tyke has a little virus? If at 9 p.m. on Channel 25. "Scrubs" takes over its new time slot tonight at 9:30 on Channel 7. On behalf of all "Scrubs" fans everywhere, I dont thank you, NBC All these dawgs are a little pitchy, and none of them are going to Hollywood.
"Dogs and More Dogs" looks at canine evolution, at 8 p.m. on Channel 2. John Lithgow narrates. The Sundance Channel is reairing "Tanner "88," Robert Altaian's 11-episode mockumen-tary miniseries, beginning tonight at 9. MATTHEW GILBERT Annie's vice.
But you are correct in saying she should learn to be comfortable in her own skin, and we should have emphasized that Many readers wanted to help. Read on: From Texas: "Miffed in Minnesota" needs to adjust her attitude, not her appearance. too, am a tall female. People are not looking closely when they call me "Sir" and are truly embarrassed when they realize their mistake. I used to get miffed, but now I smile and say, "Actually, I'm a ma'am." It gives us both a laugh.
Mistakes happen. Get over it New Hampshire: I'm a 60-year-old female couch potato with short hair on my head and long hair on my legs. I like men's pants because I can buy waist and in-seam sizes. I like men's shoes because they're comfortable. I'm not about to buy cosmetics or jewelry.
My parents, husband, and children love and respect me. I dont need validation from anyone, much less store clerks. Oakland: Women come in all Ask come involved more actively. Eventually people on the bus started yelling at her to stop. She yelled that it was none of our business.
I loaned my cellphone to a woman who called 911 but couldn't get through. When we arrived at our destination she decided to let it go, saying she was concerned that it would escalate the abuse to do anything more. I feel very troubled by all this. What could we have done differently? Confronting the mother just made her defensive and angry. Should we have pursued getting the police involved? A TROUBLED BYSTANDER This is a very troubling situation that too many of us have witnessed.
It is very important to step in when a child is being hurt by someone, but the way one intervenes will have an enormous effect on the outcome. The first reaction we have is usually anger. But why would someone yell at and hit his or her child? I dont believe people are born abusive; they learn it They were probably hit when they were children. Add to that economic stress, ignorance about child development, and lack of support for Dear Annie: This is in response to "Miffed in Minnesota," the tall, muscular woman who was often mistaken for a man. You suggested she wear makeup, earrings, and dresses.
Her question was not "How can I look more feminine?" but "What is the best way to handle these rude people?" You should have told her to simply say, "I prefer to be called Ms. So-and-So, thank you." Why would you take a muscular woman and put dangling earrings, makeup, and a skirt on her? Do you want people to think she is a cross-dresser? I am sure if "Miffed" felt comfortable wearing those things, she would already be doing so. STILLAFANOFYOURS IN MEMPHIS We're glad you're still a fan. "Miffed" said that she is embarrassed when mistaken for a man and that it hurts her self-confidence. It sounded to us as if she would like to appear more recognizably feminine, hence our ad Mailbox shapes and sizes.
How dare you tell her to try makeup? That kind of thinking has repressed women for generations. You should have told her that she is beautiful as is and that the problem is narrow-minded, ignorant people who need to stop making assumptions. This is why young girls are anorexic and bulimic. Our culture tells them they need to be prettier. Arizona: I'm only 5 feet 4, but gender-free, outdoorsy clothes are enough for people to assume I'm male.
My reaction is to pause, which alone gets their attention, and smile. Once they take a closer look, they apologize. I always wear lipstick, eye shadow, and earrings, but the person actually has to look at me to notice. Florida: "Miffed" shouldn't be surprised that she is mistaken for a man. I'm only 5 feet 7, but my shoulders are wider than my hips, so people assume I'm male.
A feminine hairdo and an eye-catching hair ornament work wonders. Michigan: I am 5 feet 9, ath Beth raising kids, and you have an unhealthy situation. Yelling at a frustrated and overwhelmed mother becomes one more blow to her already damaged self-worth. She will feel shamed and defensive. She may stop hitting her child then, but how will this help her stop in the future? It may make things worse and cause her to isolate herself and her child further.
An approach that reaches out without shaming her has a better chance of helping. For example, ask the person next to the woman to switch seats with you so you can talk to her privately: "I remember how hard it was when my kids were small and I was trying to go somewhere, and they had minds of their own. Can I hold your little girl to give you a break?" If this doesn't stop her, say something like "Forgive me for butting in, but you must be under incredible stress, and I would like to help you if I can. I know no mother deep in her heart wants to harm her child, so you must really be hurting now. Are things tough?" This is likely to calm her down and because it doesnt shame her, she will be less likely to take it out on her child.
Entertain the child so for a man letic, and muscular, and wear my hair short. When I was younger, comments like "Why is that boy wearing earrings?" hurt my feel- ings considerably. The best boost to her self-confidence is to forget these people and take stock in those who see her as the statuesque and beautiful woman she is. University of Vermont: Makeup and feminine clothes are the trappings of the "effeminate mystique." My partner and I are mistaken for men, and we are neither ultra feminine nor truly masculine-looking. We dont become angry.
We just smile and point out the error. Why should "Miffed" do something against her natural state to ensure that others dont make mistakes? E-mail your questions to annies mailboxcreators.com, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, co Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Suite 700, Los Angeles CA 90045. she can compose herself. When the time is right, encourage her to get some support by calling a family service agency.
If this doesnt work, say quietly but firmly, "You are hurting your child and upsetting all of us. Please stop yelling and hitting her. I will help you with her, but you must stop." If she doesnt, tell her you will ask the bus driver to stop so the police can be notified. Taking this kind of approach is challenging. Most of us do not have the confidence or the will to truly become involved.
We live busy and complex lives, isolated from those around us, and have strong beliefs about not getting involved in other peoples' lives, particularly those of parents. But it's the only approach that has a chance of helping someone in this desperate state. What have others done that has worked to stop abusive situations? Beth can be reached at askbethglobe.com. Send letters to Ask Beth, The Boston Globe, PO Box 55819, Boston MA 02205-5819. Questions can be answered only through this column.
Ask Beth is a registered trademark of Globe Newspaper Co. Abusive mom had fellow bus passengers worried INCUBUS Continued from Page Fl today. There is U2, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and some others. It seems like these are the bands that keep progressing and evolving." Incubus takes another stride on its new CD, "A Crow Left of the Murder." The disc, which comes out today, ushers in a more varied and harder-rocking chapter for the band. The last album, 2001's "Morning View," sold 2 million copies in the United States, with three modern-rock Top 10 hits in "Wish You Were Here," "Warning," and "Nice to Know You." But the new music goes way beyond cloning that sound; it is more aggressive, improvisational, and exciting.
Incubus is not playing it safe. "It was time for us to make an album that had a lot of energy to vent, compared to 'Morning says Einziger. "The tempos of the songs on that album weren't drastically different. They didn't have the hyper quality that you can hear now. The new record is our answer to the midtempo sound I'd call it the gray zone of our last two records.
We can still look back and think that some of those songs were good, but it was time to branch out from the same tempos." As for the exotic title "A Crow Left of the Murder," Einziger explains: "A murder of crows is a literary term, like a flock of sheep or a school of fish. We're making reference to setting ourselves consciously apart from the pack. We Peek inside tomorrow's Globe tonight. Preview some of the major stories planned for tomorrow's Globe on WBZ 4 News at 11 pm. Che Boston 6lobe Your world, unfolding daily." Dear Beth: Yesterday, I took a long bus trip.
Periodically throughout the trip, a young mother raised her voice to her 2-year-old daughter, yelling "Stop that right now," or hit her. It was very Upsetting, and I struggled with what to do. I mentally sent compassion to the mother, who obviously needed guidance with parenting, and to the daughter who was trapped in this relationship. But I hesitated to be- an Home. Health.
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