Part 2: Movies, TV, Books

1. A Great Day inHarlem (U.S.A., Jean Bach)

2. Devil in a Blue Dress(U.S.A., Carl Franklin)

3.Unzipped (U.S.A., Douglas Keeve)

4. New JerseyDrive (U.S.A., Nick Gomez)

5.Panther (U.S.A., MarioVan Peebles)

6. DoloresClaiborne (U.S.A., Taylor Hackford)

7. Theremin(U.S.A., Steven M. Martin)

8. Title sequence fromGoldeneye (U.K., DannyKleinman):

-- Taking over from Maurice Binder, who created theclassic 007 title sequences of scantily clad women romping insilhouette to over-orchestrated pop songs, Kleinman offers up thewittiest take yet on the collapse of communism, and a deliriouscelebration of what Nabokov called "the liberating power ofPhilistine vulgarity." With nude cuties scrambling over toppled bustsof Lenin and Stalin, the sequence is like a marriage of news footagefrom the breakup of the USSR and the daydreams of Russians longingfor the decadent pop delights of the West. This, you think, is whycommunism fell: for naked girls and Tina Turner songs.

1. BeyondRangoon (John Boorman)

2. MinaTannenbaum (France, Martine Dugowson)

3. BeforeSunrise (U.S.A., Richard Linklater)

4. UnstrungHeroes (U.S.A., Diane Keaton)

5. The UsualSuspects (U.S.A., Brian Singer)

6.Babe (Australia, ChrisNoonan)

7. I Can't Sleep

8. New Jersey Drive

9. Devil in a BlueDress (U.S.A., Carl Franklin)/A LittlePrincess (U.S.A., Alejandro Cauzon)

10. Crumb/A Great Day inHarlem/Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

11. Leaving LasVegas (U.S.A., Mike Figgis)

Diane Sawyer's no-tough-questions-askedMichael Jackson infomercial last summer.

Connie Chung persuading Newt Gingrich'smother to whisper in her ear--and her ear alone--what Newt calledfirst lady Hillary Clinton.

Jay Leno's October booking ofChinese-American human rights activist Harry Wu onThe Tonight Show. Lenoactually chatted up Wu about China's rights abuses without turningthe material into a joke. Then he let Wu sing his own rendition ofElvis' "Love Me Tender."

Homicide's poignant episode featuring anencounter between two mothers of teenage boys--one a murderer, theother his victim. Sitting together in the police station, the womentalked about their mutual concern--the dangers of raising kids in thecity--without ever realizing who the other mother was.

Judge Lance Ito removing a pudgytransvestite from his courtroom for talking too much.

The verdict, the most tense five secondson the air this year.

The Larry Sanders gang finding avideotape of Hank with two prostitutes.

The Simpsons' revelation that it was ....Maggie Simpson who shot Mr. Burns.

Miami's WFOR-Channel 4's use of graphicfootage from TheAccused, not once but twice, to illustrate astory about rape prevention.

CBS' reporting of film director LouisMalle's death as a Candace Berge-related item, using images from herMurphy Brownsitcom.

Robin Dougherty is the TV critic for theMiami Herald.

Mr. Ives' Christmas, OscarHijuelos (HarperCollins)

Rule of the Bone, RussellBanks (HarperCollins)

Resurrection Man, EoinMcNamee (Picador)

Interstate, Stephen Dixon(Henry Holt)

The Age of Consent,Geoffrey Wolff (Knopf)

All Souls' Rising, MadisonSmartt Bell (Pantheon)

Of Love and Other Demons,Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf)

Summer Blue, Floyd Skloot(StoryLine Press)

Waiting for the Dark,Waiting for the Light, Ivan Klima (Grove)

The Island of the DayBefore, Umberto Eco (Harcourt Brace)

Glass, Irony, & God,Anne Carson (New Directions)

The Annals of Chile, PaulMuldoon (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)

The Husbands: An Account of Books 3 and 4 ofHomer's "Iliad," Christopher Logue (Farrar,Strauss, & Giroux)

Selected Poems, WilliamBronk (New Directions)

A Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the'20s, Ann Douglas (Farrar, Straus, &Giroux) Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in NineParts, Milan Kundera (HarperCollins)Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death ofthe First Italian Republic, Alexander Stille(Pantheon) Sinatra! The Song Is You: ASinger's Art, Will Friedwald (Scribner)City Life: Urban Expectations in a NewWorld, Witold Rybczynski (Scribner)A Civil Action,Jonathan Harr (Random House) The Origin ofSatan, Elaine Pagels (Random House)

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition,Anne Frank (Doubleday)

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov(Knopf)