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Even Murray himself, who also co-directed and co-produced Quick Change, shows little of his usual zaniness onscreen. And there is little in Davis's performance to remind audiences of her Oscar-winning role as an eccentric dog trainer in The Accidental Tourist...
Hollywood could not have cast a more suitable director. Serious and sensitive, with a trial lawyer's appetite for the telling detail, Pakula had brought two "unfilmable" books, All the President's Men and Sophie's Choice, to life onscreen. For his new challenge, he and production designer George Jenkins scouted courthouses around the country. They finally chose Detroit for exterior shots, Newark for some early court scenes and, for the climactic trial, an elaborate set modeled on a Cleveland building and meticulously reproduced at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens...
...today's computer-literate young truly do have the capacity to process images faster than their parents, they enjoy an unparalleled opportunity -- so long as they learn to process words as well. They could become the first generation in history to be bilingual, in this sense, fluent onscreen as well as off. We need not, when we learn to talk, forget to communicate in other ways. But only words can teach the use of words, and ideas beget ideas. So just as certain tribes must be taught how to read a TV set, we must be taught how to read...
MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (CBS, April 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Dick Clark and Leeza Gibbons are this year's hosts, and new onscreen technology will show viewers up-to-the-minute scores as the contestants are winnowed. What is this, a beauty pageant or a game show...
Television is one of those peculiar institutions (professional sports is another) where the underlings often wield more clout than their bosses. The faces onscreen, after all, are what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney...