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Here's the plot; try not to get lost. Wife of husband (Tom Hanks) dies. Husband (now Widower) is sad, and moves to Seattle with young son. Son (Ross Malinger), worried about lonely father, calls a radio call-in show. Widower gets on the phone and pours out his heart to the American people. Unmarried Woman in Baltimore (Meg Ryan) hears Widower and her heart goes out to him. She writes a letter. There's a few bumps along the way, but, surprise, Widower and Unmarried Woman get together...
...city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood, Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. One rumor had it that thugs planned to disguise themselves with stolen police uniforms...
...Miller's Law," hosted by Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller, is a call-in show designed to provide information on legal issues that affect viewers' daily lives. Miller said he and Court TV executives came up with the idea about a year...
...media, he realized that the proliferation of outlets has created a new game: a way to reach the American people directly, without the mediation of Dan Rather and the New York Times. The Perot campaign owed much of its amazing start to its call-in, soft-news-show launch, which allowed it to get its message out unfiltered...
...illusion. A New England town hall works because the town is small. Real interaction between people, between governors and governed, is possible. In a vast continental nation like the U.S., it is not. Mass electronic communication is really one-way communication, top-down. For the practiced performer the call-in show is the most easily manipulated forum...