DAILY 05-21-05 MD SU C1 CMYK [ ABCDE] Inside 2 DeGeneres among Daytime Emmy winners C 3 Names & Faces: “Star Wars” sets records The Arts 5 Theater: Accokeek Creek’s “Matt & Ben” Television Comics 7 Weekend TV: Highlights and listings Style Saturday, May 21, 2005 S It’s E-Party Central After Video Games Expo, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo Let ’Er Rip By Jose Antonio Vargas The global gaming industry ap- wise, it’s an all-out war. It feels Washington Post Staff Writer pears to have picked up where old like the late ’90s again. Hollywood, the anemic record in- Imagine the shouting match: LOS ANGELES — Here at E3, dustry and long-forgotten dot- Microsoft: We’ve got the Kill- the Vatican conclave of the video coms left off — throwing a week’s ers! The Chemical Brothers! game industry (only much loud- worth of mass shebangs that get We’re at the Shrine Auditorium! er), it’s Sony’s PlayStation 3 vs. bigger every year, bigger even Sony: Oh yeah? We’re way up Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The new than what Vanity Fair and Elton on a hill, overlooking Dodger Sta- Xbox made the rounds, and Sony John have done to Oscar night, dium, with a spectacular view of showed off dizzying specs for its minus designer gowns. E3 (short- Los Angeles! We’ve got Jimmy new baby, due next year. Pub- hand for the Electronic Entertain- Eat World! Steve Jones of the Sex licists are blowing smoke about ment Expo, the 11th annual L.A.- Pistols! Brandon Boyd of Incu- both, but really it comes down to based confab of all things video bus! Liz Phair! ZED INK this: Which giant throws the best game) could never just be anoth- Microsoft threw a megaparty at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for its new Xbox. The Killers entertained. private party? er industry convention. Party- See PARTIES, C2, Col. 1 TV Preview ‘Our Fathers’ — What Be Thy Point? By Tom Shales Jenny’s Washington Post Staff Writer Of course, it sounds glib and perhaps insensitive to say that pe- dophile priests are yesterday’s scandal, and that the world has Image moved on to others of arguably greater import, but then only the most naive could imagine that the problem no longer exists. Still, a big gray cloud of “why now?” hangs heavily over “Our Fathers,” On the the Showtime movie about the tragic crisis and its sobering ram- ifications. In addition, the film, premier- ing at 8 tonight on the pay-cable channel, is no prize package. It’s Block flabby with unnecessary details, some of them arbitrary as well as irrelevant. It lacks the kind of co- hesive punch delivered by, to Latinos Say Lopez Is BY KEN WORONER — SHOWTIME name one prominent example, “In- Christopher Plummer as Cardinal dictment: The McMartin Trial,” Selling a Shift in Culture Bernard Law in Showtime’s movie about the priest pedophilia scandal. See TV PREVIEW, C7, Col. 5 By Sandy M. Fernandez Washington Post Staff Writer his past winter, Kimlan Fong Wong and her boyfriend of several years, Anthony Taveras, stopped talking to each other for three days Design after she threw a vase at him during an argu- Tment. The subject: Jennifer Lopez. “He kept calling her J. Ho,” says Wong, a 29-year- old office manager and college student in Queens, who’s originally from Trinidad & Tobago. “It was Sunlight and Shadows ‘J. Ho this’ and ‘J. Ho that.’ He knows I like her. I felt like he wasn’t respecting me.” From his apartment in Takoma Park, Ramon At the Furniture Fair Rivera wages his own defense of the singer/ By Linda Hales vines escaping from some exotic actress/entrepreneur — in his case, against Washington Post Staff Writer garden to cover every imaginable his Honduran grandmother, who lives in Mi- surface. It traffics in sheer beauty ami. Rivera, 22, lived there with his extended NEW YORK — Taking the and is meant to warm the heart. family until last year, when he decided he pulse of design has become an an- The other comes from a darker needed to assert his independence. nual ritual at the International place and thrives on imagery of “Some of the older people have more Contemporary Furniture Fair. danger, fire or simply the crash of traditional views,” he says. “So the way This week, heart and head were broken porcelain. It can be beauti- she dresses, or the fact that she’s been out of sync. ful but also disturbing. married three times, those things make The 17th spring festival attract- At first, the romanticists ap- people like my grandmother say, ‘Oh, ed thousands of designers, deal- peared to be ascendant. They lav- no, I don’t like her.’ But I say, ‘Look at ers, buyers, photographers, styl- ished delicate floral patterns on everything she’s accomplished.’ ” ists, curators and critics to the hand-knotted carpets, imprinted This is familiar ground to the three Ri- Jacob K. Javits Convention Cen- fern motifs on metal tables and os sisters, who grew up in Puerto Rico ter and 60 other locales earlier painted poppies on couture-qual- and are now scattered on the East this week. ity wallcoverings. Leaves found Coast, two in Washington and one in Among the rough prototypes their way onto silk lampshades. New York. Normally pretty tight, the and slick production models, two The imagery suggested a Rous- sisters are divided along the Lopez schools of thought stood out. One seau-like natural serenity, with line — two for and one against — and is descended from the 19th centu- have discussed the topic enough that ry, with images of flowers and See DESIGN, C2, Col. 1 Ralph Sordyl, husband to dissenter Mary Blanca, knows exactly where the others stand. See LOPEZ, C4, Col. 1 BY MIKE BLAKE — REUTERS A cheerful chair made of recycled debris by designer Maarten Baas. Recordings Il Divo: A Boy Band’s Cheese, Aged By Philip Kennicott threatening. The cover of their hit Il Divo is a Simon Cowell proj- Washington Post Staff Writer album shows them with roses in ect. The brutal judge from “Amer- the lapels of their dark Italian ican Idol” is, we’ve been assured, a When they give a final requiem suits, and inside, their photo- music producer and record exec- for traditional masculinity, they graphs have an androgynous puri- utive. So now, at the high-water could do worse than to hire Il Di- ty, with bright eyes wide open, mark of his “Idol” fame, Cowell vo. The toothsome singers of the pools to swim but not drown in. has offered the world a recording “popera” quartet, whose epony- And when they sing, it is gooey that is, presumably, representa- mous album debuted at No. 4 on and teary and sentimental, the tive of his idea of good singing. As the U.S. Billboard album chart way a good-looking singing waiter a judge on “Idol,” he’s obviously M. VAN HOUTEN “Il Divo” debuted at No. 4 on the (and is No. 8 this week), special- sounds after about three carafes U.S. Billboard album chart. ize in music that is earnest but un- of the house red. See RECORDINGS, C5, Col. 1 DAILY 05-21-05 MD RE C4 BLACK C4 Saturday, May 21, 2005 R STYLE The Washington Post RADIO Call Call AM Letters Format FM Letters Format 570 WTNT Talk 88.1 WMUC Progressive 630 WMAL News/Talk 88.5 WAMU NPR News/Talk/Music 700 WGOP Talk 89.3 WPFW Progressive Talk/Jazz 730 WBZS Spanish/Tropical 90.1 WCSP C-SPAN/Public Affairs 780 WABS Contemp. Christian 90.9 WETA NPR News/Public Affairs 820 WXTR All News 91.9 WGTS Christian Music 92.7 WBZS Spanish/Contemporary BY SCOTT GRIES — GETTY IMAGES BY SETH WENIG — REUTERS 900 WILC Contemp. Spanish 930 WFMD News/Talk 93.9 WKYS Urban Hits 950 WCTN Christian 94.3 WPLC Spanish/Love Songs her first album would appeal to “my generation of 980 WTEM Sports/Talk 94.7 WARW Classic Rock 95.5 WPGC Urban Hits people, who grew up in America but had Latin 1030 WWGB Gospel 1050 WFED Federal News 96.3 WHUR Urban Adult Woman, Brand parents or parents of a different ethnicity.... 97.1 WASH Soft Rock 1120 WUST Ethnic 98.7 WMZQ Country That’s what I felt like I needed my music to re- 1160 WMET News/Talk flect.” Three years later, talking about filming 99.1 WHFS Spanish/Contemporary 1220 WFAX Christian 99.5 WIHT Top 40 And Symbol “Maid in Manhattan” in her childhood neigh- 1260 WWRC News 99.9 WFRE Country borhood, she was quoted as saying, “Rita Moreno 1310 WDCT Korean 100.3 WBIG Oldies 1340 WYCB Gospel 101.1 WWDC Rock LOPEZ, From C1 never came to the Bronx when I was growing 1390 WZHF Chinese/Talk/Music up.... I think it’s important to do that, so people 102.3 WMMJ Urban Adult 1450 WOL Urban Talk 103.5 WGMS Classical “They love her,” he says, wonderingly. “They have that [inspiration] in their lives.” 1460 WKDV Asian 103.9 WWVZ Top 40 go see her movies the first day they open.” In his recent book “Starstruck: When a Fan 1480 WPWC Spanish 104.1 WWZZ Top 40 “Don’t tell people that!” snaps his wife. “It’s so Gets Close to Fame,” author Michael Joseph 1500 WTOP All News 105.1 WAVA Christian Talk embarrassing!” Gross hypothesizes that the emotion one feels to- 1540 WACA Spanish Contemporary/ 105.9 WJZW Smooth Jazz Talk 106.7 WJFK Talk/Sports ward a celebrity is, essentially, the act of confusing 1560 WKIK Classic Rock 107.3 WRQX Modern Adult Hits feelings for a piece of work— a set of song lyrics, a 1580 WPGC Gospel 107.7 WTOP All News Once again, we are talking about J.