Word: guested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CURTAIN RISES and reveals an opulent set: the pool behind a sprawling Riviera mansion. The characters include the host, a Grand Old Man of English Letters, and his guest, the fashionable, wealthy, titled, or ornamental, who gossip and munch on scones. As the drama begins, it reveals a game of ambitious, but subtle, manipulation which some characters play at a leisurely pace, others with greater determination. Curiously, as the intrigue unfolds, the audience begins to recognize itself on stage. In horror, or delight, spectators watch the dissection of the characters' worst sides--their own. The Grand...
...layman. Why should the law be mysterious? he asks. An expert in privacy law and court procedure and one of Harvard Law's most popular and entertaining lecturers, Miller slid into television after a friend, Nieman Foundation Curator James Thomson, suggested that WCVB use the professor as a guest host on Sunday Open House, one of the station's many public affairs offerings. Those appearances led to his own show. Miller's Court made its debut last fall. At first the audience was minuscule, but soon interest perked, and the show now attracts 10% of the viewers...
Only a man of Miller's theatrical talent could make a winner out of the heavy fare that is the show's subject matter. Roaming about a small stage, his hands stabbing the air for emphasis, Miller, 45, goads and needles, at times virtually cross-examines studio guests, who wear large yellow tags giving their first names. Leading discussions on such issues as sex discrimination, the death penalty, and child abuse, Miller elicits one view from one participant, an opposing thesis from another; occasionally, in the best Socratic manner, he lures a guest into contradiction to clarify...
...with their guidance, Miller ends the program with an assessment of how the legal system would settle the issue. The show, says Andrea Pollack of Lexington, Mass., a recent studio participant, "brings the law down to a level where we can understand it." Adds Tom Carlson of Medfield, another guest: "Miller gets the man in the street more interested in the law by giving him a chance to get in on the discussion." Miller's talent at sparking wide-open discussion is such that many viewers report switching off their sets after the show and continuing the debate...
...guest has spilled some coffee on the table, and quicker than you can say Oops! the little woman in trousers and a rakish jockey cap has mopped up the mess. "There, that's fine," she says, looking down in satisfaction. "Viva towels are so much better than Bounty." Then, listening to herself, she laughs, hoots, cacklesthere are no mere giggles from this lady. "I sound like a television commercial...