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Title: The case of the beautiful corpse: a comparison of today's TV crime dramas with crime novels of the past shows how our culture has changed.(Television)(Column)
Author: Raymond A. Schroth
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 12, 2004
Publisher: National Catholic Reporter
Volume: 40 Issue: 19 Page: 16(2)Article Type: ColumnDistributed by Thompson Gale
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I had fallen asleep during a post-midnight "Nightline" in my big TV-watching chair and then suddenly I snapped out of it and Oprah Winfrey was in the room. Ted Koppel had lost me, but now, in a replay between 1 and 2 a.m., Oprah had snagged my attention with the corpse of a beautiful woman. I had missed her opening, but the show seemed to be a celebration, from the woman's angle--with a real life woman investigator, the star who plays her role, the dead bodies of women in ditches and stretched out on the morgue table, and the mothers of the deceased smiling up from the studio audience--of the "hottest" show on television, CBS's "Crime...
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