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.... ducers certamly mqmsi-
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American Centfrom their side of the
sad story in every cell, but ddest belongs to an in- perhaps the sa·mrnY Mirabel. He was
BY ALIX CHRISTIE Chronicle Foreign Service1
Paris
A brash young Cali-
fornian with a cub·
ist tilt official!y takes up residence on the Right Bank tomorrow, an emissary from American
culturetotheCityofLight. The new American Cen·
ter, a $40 million eruption of limestone blocks design- ed by the renowned L.A. ar- chitect Frank 0 . Gehry, will
be ushered tomorrow even· ingonto the Paris creative scene by no less illustrious a masterofceremoniesthan DavidByrne-withhelp,it
isrumored,fromHtllary Rodham Clinton.
Theexpatriateeventof the year caps seven years of
Fnatimunfounspacropes afromtheblostocomSeiandthenewhwhtocorivisbeyou
up at night.
addiCt at
er, be'S back the tock-UP for a last- emerges frofbearing, at which a judge
cites retea
Atper your
history and his
drug rehab clinic. .
t and Rosenblum let you draw
octal conclusions about a brutalized,underclassthat's ·
angprisonsandstrainingcorrec- crow1bndgets Theirmostovertmes-
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iSto young peop e.
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cy afemaleinmateatRikers,
an into the camera at the staresw e rogramandsays,"It'sa.
of;:.d Don't do it to your- · toneY' uwanttoknowwhatanice self.lfhy_uogisatnight,don'tcomehere." warm
at A
.planning,buildingandcon-
troversy since the former
AmericanCenterdecidedit mMediocre Programming . eurne weekday series
hadoutgrownitsBohemian digsontheLeftBankin 1987. And it marks the be· ginning of what could be an
equallylongdriveto · thecenterfulfillitspromise asauniquecross-cultural institution.
anAcoLl! thismorning,couldbe
du11.80 laincable'sprogrammmgrut.
toexP 't M rkitandfilel.
a A tring of the worst actors you've , sndured sit before an actual mar-
Cevereounsetor WendyLeDoux,and ctheirscriptedwoesaboutinfidel: reel problems, money worries and
itY'c thingelsethatcanendangera
everYtage LeDouxiscalmandunder-
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standing. C l"k Motherand
"TheMarriage ounse or rna es Child Reunion ••• hoddYold"DivorceCourt" dra-
took like the Royal Shake- ma reCompany.Anyway,whynotjust the channel and watch real family
fl cts on "Geratdo" or "Sally Jessy Ra- spa •
hael"?
.P 1Whatasurprise.KingWorldhas
need that it's re-upping "Wheel annou e" "Jeopardy!" and "The
of ShOW." But not justrfor
season.The first two are re- one ed through 1999, and "Oprah" is first shoW to be renewed
eough the year 2()00. And why not? been afabulous millennium for her.
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New moms can .work out with 1their babies
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