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• Soap opera updates

  ALL MY CHILDREN: Although worried about Kendall, Zach took time to bond with his (he was the sperm donor) daughter, Gabrielle. Bianca's significant other, Reese, arrived with Bianca's older daughter, Miranda. Bianca agreed to Reese's marriage proposal. Angie met Natalia's mother and Jesse's ex, Rebecca, when she arrived at the hospital to see an injured Natalia. Rebecca told Natalia that she's coping with ''everything,'' but later collapsed while with Angie. David operated on Kendall, who took a...

• TELEVISION

  Obama ad a 'closing argument'

  Barack Obama, in a pre-taped half-hour infomercial that aired on several channels, addressed potential voters and summed up several of his campaign themes.

• Soap opera updates

  ALL MY CHILDREN: Angie did what she could for a badly injured Babe at the scene and later performed surgery on her at the hospital. Babe died after she and J.R. said their wedding vows (they weren't legal). Babe's father, Dr. David Hayward, showed up at the hospital after Babe died and, blaming the Chandlers for her death, vowed vengeance against them. Zach, who is the father, was surprised to see Bianca was pregnant. Trapped in the rubble at the beach house, Zach helped Bianca deliver a baby girl...

• JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL

  There's a writer behind the television actor

  Known for his roles on Sex and the City and Californication, Evan Handler's in town to talk books.

• Soap opera updates

  SOAPS ALL MY CHILDREN: Angie did what she could for a badly injured Babe at the scene and later performed surgery on her at the hospital. Babe died after she and J.R. said their wedding vows (they weren't legal). Babe's father, Dr. David Hayward, showed up at the hospital after Babe died and, blaming the Chandlers for her death, vowed vengeance against them. Zach, who is the father, was surprised to see Bianca was pregnant. Trapped in the rubble at the beach house, Zach helped Bianca deliver a baby...
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  TELEVISION REVIEW

  Fashion sense . . . well, forget about the sense

  Say what you will of Stylista -- brainless, vituperative, petty, ought to be clubbed like a baby seal; those would be a good way to start -- it makes no pretense of being anything else. Its essential shallowness is on display from the very start, when 11 contestants for a junior editor's job at the fashion magazine Elle are issued their first challenge: Bring the boss breakfast.
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  TELEVISION

  Oprah's now bilingual

  The Oprah Winfrey Show is becoming bilingual. Chicago-based Harpo Productions says the show is being made available in Spanish through Secondary Audio Programming and closed captioning.
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  TELEVISION REVIEWS

  Count Dracula's gotta be spinning in his grave

  Vampire Princess, 8-9 p.m. Sunday, Smithsonian Channel Scream Queens, 10-11 p.m. Monday, VH-1 Every time I watch a presidential debate, I think the candidate we really need is Vlad Tepes, a prince who ruled a big chunk of what's now Romania back during the Middle Ages. Vlad once invited all the country's thieving noblemen to a big banquet where he locked them up and forced them to spend most of the next decade building him a castle. You think he wouldn't get this banking crisis straightened out in...
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  SCREEN GEMS

  Coming this week on TV and at the movies

  SMALL SCREEN Stylista (9 p.m. Wednesday, The CW) -- Eleven young fashion-obsessed twits compete to see who's the most insipid and irrelevant to the universe. The winner gets a job at Elle magazine for a year. The losers are parachuted into North Korea and forced to dress Kim Jong Il. And the viewers put their own eyes out with sharpened chopsticks.

• Soap opera updates

  SOAPS ALL MY CHILDREN: Ryan was suspicious when Annie didn't object to him wanting custody of Emma, but he gave her visitation rights. Kendall realized that Zach is helping Annie for Emma's sake. Angie and Frankie helped Opal (who worried something bad would happen), who had a heart attack while at the Comeback. Several tornadoes struck Pine Valley, leaving Adam and Erica trapped in the tunnels beneath his mansion, while another tornado struck the Comeback. Zach searched for a missing Kendall. Greenlee...

• TELEVISION REVIEW

  Arrgh! 'Crusoe' just so-so

  Crusoe, 8-10 p.m. Friday, WTVJ-NBC 6 Let us introduce Crusoe with a series of good news/bad news jokes, one of the intellectual staples of the audience of 11-year-old boys for which it is intended. Good news: A ship has arrived to the desert island on which Robinson Crusoe is marooned. Bad news: It's full of pirates. Good news: One of the pirates is a chick who compares favorably to the coconuts Crusoe has been dating. Bad news: The last guy to hit on her got his eye ripped out. ''That sounds grim...

• REALITY TV

  Broward's newest reality show follows traffic court drama

  Reality TV is back in Broward, again. This time, it's thanks to the new truTV show `Speeders Fight Back.'
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  TELEVISION REVIEW

  Internal conflict: Crime or duty?

  Soldiers of Conscience is about wars, those that men fight against one another and those they fight against their deepest human impulses. The latter are on display in the earliest moments of the show, in footage of U.S. infantry recruits learning to fight with bayonets.

• TELEVISION

  Humor could be debatable

  Just imagine if, when the TV cameras pulled back to show the audience during last week's presidential debate, Charles Gibson had breathlessly exclaimed: ''Uncomfortable chairs brought to you by Ikea!'' Or if, as the candidates ripped into federal mortgage agencies for causing the banking crisis, a reproving Katie Couric had decreed: ``Fannie and Freddie are totally not invited to my next pizza party!''
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  TV REVIEW

  Two men, one body: danger for everyone

  My Own Worst Enemy, 10-11 p.m. Monday, WTVJ-NBC 6 When a sultry Russian double agent whispers her postcoital love to hard-boiled American spy Edward Albright, he warns her: ``Don't let an act of deception turn into an act of self-deception.''

• SCREEN GEMS

  Coming this week on TV and at the movies

  BIG SCREEN W. (PG-13) -- Director Oliver Stone promises this biopic about the life of President George W. Bush (played by Josh Brolin) will be a ''compassionate'' look at the man. Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Scott Glenn and Richard Dreyfuss make up Bush's cabinet, while James Cromwell is his dad.
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  CELEBRITY Q&A

  Heidi chats about 'Project Runway' past and future

  While NBC Universal and the Weinstein Co. fight over the rights to Project Runway, host and executive producer Heidi Klum is trying to focus on the future of the show. She's taping the sixth season of the popular fashion design competition -- set in Los Angeles instead of New York -- even though it remains unclear where or when it will eventually air. Recently, she spoke about this season of Runway (which concludes Wednesday), the program's recipe for success and what it's like to work on the show...

• Soap opera updates

  ALL MY CHILDREN: Saying he would help Annie keep Emma, Zach sent her to his psychiatrist friend. Zach secretly listened as Annie blurted out to the shrink that she killed Richie, but insisted she didn't mean to. Zach used Richie's murder to convince Annie not to continue her fight for Emma. Angie told Kendall, Babe, Greenlee and Amanda that tests showed their Bella perfume contains poison. Adam threatened to sue Fusion because Colby became ill after Kendall sprayed her with the perfume. Adam threatened...
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  TELEVISION COMMENTARY

  Objections to WTVJ deal rooted in bygone era

  I haven't thought of them in years, those bedraggled, starving Japanese soldiers who -- when I was growing up in the early 1960s -- were periodically discovered in jungle caves on remote Pacific islands, unaware that World War II had been over for decades.
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  TELEVISION REVIEWS

  Won't need TiVo tonight

  The good news is that this is the last big night of an abortive fall television season that still bears the scars of the Hollywood writers' strike earlier this year.

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