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By MichelleJuly 28, 2003 - 5:57 PM
Hello World!
I'm back from a month driving across the country and back with my family. I thought fondly of this column particularly in Las Vegas, setting for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and home of the Star Trek Experience, which was my younger son's favorite thing about the entire trip.
We drove along parts of old Route 66 through the southwest, stopped at churches in Albuquerque and reservations in Montana. Saw Cadillac Ranch in Texas and the Corn Palace in South Dakota. Crossed the Mississippi in Missouri going out and Minnesota on the way back. Visited several national parks — Little Bighorn, Devil's Tower, Petrified Forest, the Grand Canyon and the Badlands, to name a few.
It's really striking, driving across the U.S., how much entertainment serves as common cultural currency among people from very different backgrounds. We debated Harry Potter with the rural Oregonians on the camp site next to ours in Idaho; my sons played Yu-Gi-Oh with previously unknown cousins in Missouri; I bonded over Viggo Mortensen with a niece-by-marriage I had met only once before.
But I'm way behind on current phenomena — missed most of the news from the TCA press tour, found out days after the fact about Katharine Hepburn's death, didn't go to a movie for more than a month. I did manage to see Seabiscuit on opening weekend, but I only saw Pirates of the Caribbean last Saturday...weeks after most of my friends.
Bear with me while I catch up and learn to write in British again.
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Today's Television Listings
Tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, CBS will show "Ashes to Ashes" on CSI Miami. Here's the official synopsis of the episode:
When a priest is found dead in his rectory after being brutally shot, Megan, Calleigh and Speedle must untangle a messy web of familial issues that lead to his death. Elsewhere, Horatio and Eric attempt to solve the emotional case of an exploded vehicle, which was home to a mother with child.
Friday night at 11 p.m. Eastern Time, TNN will rerun CSI's "Cross-Jurisdictions". Here is a summary of the episode:
Grissom and his crew handle their highest profile case to date when the city's former chief of detectives is slain execution-style in his house following a wild party. Missing from the residence are the chief's trophy wife and their 7-year-old daughter. When several motorists report seeing the girl along an access road near Miami, Catherine and Warrick fly there and meet that city's top CSI, Horatio Caine, who aids them in the investigation.
Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the CSI episode "Revenge Is Best Served Cold" will rerun on CBS. The official synopsis states:
Catherine and Nick become absorbed in the dangerous world of street racing after one of the illegal sport's hotshot drivers is found dead out in the desert at an abandoned airstrip. Back in town, Grissom and his crew probe the sudden death of a renowned poker player who suffered a violent convulsion in the middle of a high-stakes game with three others. It looks like natural causes, at first, but Grissom suspects foul play.
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