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...ingenious minds of the Capitol will not stand by while the greatest deliberative body in the world becomes a lump of couch potatoes. Already a large loophole in the Senate version permits gifts motivated by friendship. The proper sincerity attending these presents will be defined by the Senate Ethics Committee. Watch out for a tautological modification of the old Capitol proverb: If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog -- or bring a gift...
...watching the movie Dracula on Bell Atlantic's Stargazer video-on- demand service, and it's working like a charm. It's part of the phone company's two-way interactive-TV system, which is designed to demonstrate how tomorrow's couch potatoes will order movies and TV shows from a menu of listings and make them start and stop whenever they want...
...holds, is reacting -- responding spontaneously to what another actor says or does. In one-person shows, that essential tension is missing. Every confrontation feels contrived. No villain or even annoyance gets a fair say. If one-person shows can feel as candid as a session on the psychiatrist's couch, they can also be just as narcissistic...
After years of fragmenting TV audiences and drooping ratings for even major sports events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the networks had cause to cheer: Lillehammer showed that couch potatoes can still be lured back. The Games' popularity also disproved one bit of conventional Olympics wisdom -- that live is better than taped. Although the prime-time events were canned and the results known beforehand, viewers couldn't seem to turn away...
...lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter tops"), Sammy (Steve Zahn), who is gently receding into the wallpaper, and Troy (Ethan Hawke), who is a philosopher-couch potato, fired from his job as a newsstand clerk for eating a Snickers bar without authorization...