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Young Americans face thrill of youth, turmoil of adulthood
By Ben Nuckols Associated Press Writer
BALTIMORE — It's a curious malady—one that doesn't get much attention, and the concentration of those afflicted is particularly high around Baltimore. It's called Homicide withdrawal.
While the critically acclaimed, Peabody award-winning police series never gained a large national audience, the devotees in its city of origin were fanatical. For true fans, withdrawal symptoms persist, even if time dulls their pain.
A few people who work in the television industry, however, have found a cure. TV production has returned to Baltimore with Young Americans — premiering at 8 p.m. Wednesday on the WB — and the tight-knit crew that made Homicide possible is back at work.
The crew sees nothing wrong with that. Their workplace moved from the city's roughest streets to a sound stage in the industrial Locust Point neighborhood and a handful of idyllic locations outside the city line. Their goal is to transform Baltimore into Rawley Academy, a private school in a lakeside New England village.
The similarities between the two series end there. Instead of tough crime stories, Young Americans is a prep-school drama in the tradition of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Dawson's Creek, casting young adults as teen-agers and placing them in outrageous situations.
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A mansion north of the city provides the exterior for the school.
and the lake is nearby Loch Raven Reservoir. Sleepy Havre de Grace, at the mouth of the Susquehanna River 33 miles northeast of Baltimore, stands in for the New England town.
From these locations emerges an airbrushed, anonymous Baltimore, one that appears to be much further north. Steven Antin, creator and executive producer of Young Americans, said he was amazed at the city's bounty.
"Baltimore is mostly known for Homicide, which had illustrated the grittiness of it," Antin said. "What we've discovered is an incredibly beautiful city."
Production designer Vincent Perenia, who worked on Homicide for its entire seven-year run and also has worked with Baltimore-based filmmaker John Waters, says he's enjoyed the opportunity to create an idealized milieu.
"It's about youth. It's about lushness," he said. "It's really going to be a gorgeous show."
The show's beauty extends beyond the locations. Antin has followed a WB formula by assembling a cast of virtual unknowns who are easy on the eyes. In particular, Kate Bosworth and Ian Somerhalder are likely to inspire scores of adoring Web sites.
Antin, 35, says Young Americans represents the perfection of youth. Yet he has filled their lives with the turbulence of adulthood. Here's a list, by no means complete, of the issues that pop up in the first episode: class conflict, gender confusion, the possibility of incest, lying, cheating, abusive parents, philandering parents, love, lust, disappointment and self-discovery.
"It's chock full of incidents and twists and turns," Antin said.
Among them is a female character who attend all-boys Rawley Academy. Unlike Teena Brandon, the subject of last year's emotionally wrenching film Boys Don't Cry, Jake Pratt (Katharine Moennig) isn't suffering from a gender-identity crisis. Her predicament is played for comedy and sex appeal, as she falls for fellow student Hamilton Fleming (Somerhalder).
Then there's the romance between privileged Rawley student Scout Calhoun (Mark Famiglietti) and the striking townie Bella Banks (Bosworth). They fall in love with astonishing quickness, only to find out they're brother and sister.
The relatively stable presence at the show's center is Will Krudski, the point-of-view character, played by Rodney Scott with a chip too large to fit on Will's 15-year-old shoulders. An otherwise intelligent working-class kid, Will has cheated on Rawley's entrance exam to gain admission.
"We were all sad when Homicide left because we thought it was a quality show," Perenia said. "And now, this looks like it has a good possibility of being a hit."
The former Homicide crew hopes the show will catch on enough to continue on the WB after the summer.
Elsewhere in television .. Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, along with Chris Moore, are executive producers of a new reality-based series that has a 13-episode commitment from HBO. Greenlight will chronicle the making of an actual feature film, from the time prospective scripts are submitted through production and its opening. It is expected to debut on HBO in 2002.
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