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...surprising that London's hottest musical is a send-up of America's looniest talk show. Of course, its creators clearly love their trash TV, even as they skewer it. The opera skillfully parodies the TV show's demented-circus atmosphere, and star Michael Brandon does a bang-on impression of Springer's smarmy solicitousness ("Chuckie, I sense you're not too happy about Shawntelle's pole-dancing dreams"). Even the backstage scenes ring true, with Springer trotting out knee-jerk defenses to his critics: "I don't do conflict resolution." At times the musical even makes you care...
...back to Dian Black, the cop played by Kate Agresta '02. Agresta's high-pitched, edgy performance seems at times exaggerated, yet it is the only way to reconcile the initial Dian Black, who exudes sleek professionalism, with the final Dian Black who reveals herself as the looniest character...
Maybe that's why, for the state's inhabitants, the most disturbing feature of recent events is the national media attention. It's the looniest spectacle of all. On the day of Kaczynski's arraignment, as the Freemen opened negotiations with lawmen, I was driving cross-country from New York. By the ominous tones of the radio talk jocks broadcasting from their coastal outposts, I half expected bands of crazed militiamen to stop me at the border. After demanding a password (Justus), they'd search my car for treasonous articles: heavy-metal or rap tapes, condoms, crack, high school textbooks...
...looniest but in some ways most revealing part of The Class of the 20th Century is the series of messages that concludes each episode, in which participants are invited to speak directly to people of the year 3000. Their comments provide a sketchbook of the concerns, great and petty, of our age. Art Buchwald says he hopes there will be good air and good water, though "we didn't leave you any." The late Joseph Papp wishes for no more theater critics. Strom Thurmond advises a regimen of daily exercise. Howard Cosell, with his trademark bombast (we miss it), offers...
Maniac Mansion (Family Channel). Dad (Joe Flaherty) is an amiably incompetent inventor, his four-year-old son is a hulking six-footer and Uncle Harry is a housefly. From such nonsense a group of SCTV alums have fashioned the looniest, sweetest family comedy of the year...