That Ms. Weems succeeds in evoking an era while revealing her props and directorial cues testifies to her skills as a magician who can tip her hand and nonetheless fool us into sharing a mood of tremulous expectancy.

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Even Fox was lukewarm, refusing to pay for the show, until Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, already a big Pop Idol fan, told her father he'd be a fool to pass up an American version.

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She knew how ridiculous that was, and she wanted to shrug it off, to stop being such a fool and maybe Harley sensed that, because he touched her, his hand alighting on her coat sleeve and lingering for a moment before he took it away.

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