UP TO ITS PEACHES IN SLEAZE, 'SAVANNAH' CHOKES ON PIT.Byline: Michael Kilian Michael Kilian (16 July 1939-26 October 2005) was a journalist and author. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in Chicago and Westchester, New York. Kilian died on 26 October 2005 from illness and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Chicago Tribune Pity the poor old South. First Grant, then Sherman, then the stupid miniseries sequel to "Gone With the Wind." And now, Aaron Spelling. Producer of such classic American drama as "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills, 90210," Spelling has lowered his sights to beneath the Mason-Dixon line and come up with a heavy-breathing new TV series called "Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. ." The series supposedly is all about the charmin' li'l ol' Georgia river town of the same name that sits at the end of the last bridge out of South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Speaking - excuse me, speakin' - as a longtime Dixie resident with pre-Civil War Virginia ancestors, Tennessee and Georgia step-kin and a passle o' Kentucky in-laws, I can only say, "Hah!" Or as Scarlett O'Hara would put it, "Oh, fiddledee." "Savannah" is to the American South what Choco-Frosties cereal is to hominy grits. It's worse than that. It's to the American South what the new NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. show "JAG judge advocate general (J.A.G.) n. a military officer who advises the government on courts-martial and administers the conduct of courts-martial. The officers who are judge advocates and counsel assigned to the accused come from the office of the judge advocate ," which has busty bust·y adj. bust·i·er, bust·i·est Full-bosomed. Adj. 1. busty - (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight blond Navy lawyers investigating space aliens, has to do with the actual U.S. Navy. When not in the bath or shower, where they spend an inordinate amount of time in this series, Spelling's hot, sleazy "Savannah" women lie about in their underwear. Underwear? In Savannah, whose unofficial municipal slogan is or ought to be "Charleston With Sin," anybody who's ever been winked at by a pretty girl on Bay Street knows better than that. Savannah is not horse country. For that - and more depravity than you'll find even on Bay Street - you go up to the Piedmont of the Carolinas. The South would be a lot more charming if it weren't for its racial attitudes and other odious, lingering vestiges of its slavery past. How does Spelling get around that problem? His Savannah - a town that in real life has just elected a black mayor - has no African-Americans at all. |
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