Word: couchful
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After a few beers on the couch in his apartment in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, Fai stands up to adjust his carefully unkempt clothes - gray T shirt and navy cotton flat-front pants worn low on the hips. He's wearing a pair of black-frame glasses and a black terry cloth wristband with a green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch...
...fair to Ultimate TV, its main advantage--two simultaneous channels of everything--is a huge one. Last Thursday, for example, it dutifully recorded both Survivor and Friends. With TiVo, I can't watch one while recording the other. If you're a career couch potato with many such conflicts, you may be able to overlook Ultimate TV's faults...
...clever construction of an episode is what makes reality good watching, that doesn't mean we want to see the stitching. The Wednesday outtakes will surely draw the slavish fan (and the indiscriminate couch potato), but once folks start thinking about the other 98 hours they're still missing, it can't help but dilute - and demystify - the rest of the action...
...terms with the fact that the home environment is a powerful influence - kids aren't going to eat better unless their home environments are cleaned up. For a lot of parents, that's really hard to do, but you can't have Mom and Dad sitting on the couch, munching on peanut M&M's and saying no to their kids...
...years ago, everybody knew how to make a sitcom. You'd get a few cute actors, maybe a stand-up comic, a nice couch and some of those big cappuccino mugs from Pottery Barn. Take a few meetings, punch out a few scripts--then sit back and wait for the Brinks truck to pull...