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September 22, 2000

Remote patrol weekend

The new WB comedy "Grosse Pointe" (7:30 tonight, Channel 62) makes me feel old. Perhaps that's because I recently graduated from the WB's 12- to-34-year-old target demographic. Or because I never got into the teen-angst melodramas supposedly being spoofed here. "Grosse Pointe" is also the show-within-a-show, and it is so mockingly over-the-top that it reminds me more of "One Life to Live" than "90210." Then again, maybe I'm disoriented by insider jokes (sample: "This is the same guy who told Felicity to cut her hair") airing on the same network as "Grosse Pointe." Yes, I know about Keri Russell's hairdo, but still. Like other show-within-show satires, "Grosse Pointe" does not call out to a mass audience. Rather, it winks at a niche audience, like the smart set who were fans of HBO's "Larry Sanders Show." Problem is, "Pointe's" audience will be made up mostly of Melissa Joan Hart fans: "Sabrina," the ABC series now transplanted to the WB, airs just before "Grosse Pointe" at 7. @ART CAPTION:The pretty 'Pointe' crew @ART:Photo >>>

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