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...review films at all, but happily provide quotes for the asking. The trailblazer for these troops was the late Jim Whaley, host for an Atlanta public-TV interview show whose effusive quotes were a movie marketer's dream. Today some of the most popular blurbers are entertainment reporters like ABC radio's Bill Diehl ("inspired, fascinating and profound," he cheered for Swing Kids) and Hollywood interviewer Jeanne Wolf ("one of the great classic romantic adventures," she raved of Sommersby). The message is that boffo quotes are more important than the source: a "Brilliant!" or "Hilarious!" looks just as impressive coming...
ASPEN'S TWIN PEAKS (ABC): Limited-run series. In the two-hour premiere, a lost skier, played by Kyle MacLachlan, goes for help, leaving his companion (Lara Flynn Boyle) in a cabin with only doughnuts to eat. She spends the next seven episodes hallucinating about a dancing dwarf (Jason Alexander). Directed by Jennifer Lynch...
...prove it with my own observations and the observations of others. I saw this in my TPs, and I even felt an impulse in myself to do this," he said during a panel discussion on "The ABC's of Grade Inflation...
...Timothy Johnson of ABC News insisted that the public has a right to learn about abnormal emotional conditions, as well as the "social history" of each candidate including a pattern of sexual promiscuity...
Sixteen years have passed since ABC's landmark telecast of Roots. In TV time, that is nearly a millennium. Back in 1977, the mini-series was a fresh and vital form. The Big Three networks still had a virtual monopoly on the TV audience. And an old-fashioned, multigenerational family saga disguised as a history lesson about slavery could seem like a major contribution to racial understanding...