Word: piloting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL, Colorado Springs. From The Wrath of Grapes, a documentary about pesticide threats to farmworkers, to the pilot of The Elite, television's first eco-police drama, a feast of 135 movies, videos, shorts and cartoons that is certain to give the 20,000 expected participants a Rocky Mountain high. April 27 through...
...also something of a miracle. Imagine: one of the world's most perversely offbeat movie directors persuades ABC to let him try a prime-time series. He shoots a pilot with virtually no interference. The network bigwigs look at the result, realize that it will probably befuddle many viewers, then decide to air it anyway. The programmers even consider -- horrors! -- showing the two-hour pilot without commercials. (Cooler heads prevail; the show will have ads, though fewer than usual.) It's enough to restore one's faith in television...
Twin Peaks spins out a whodunit that may or may not be solved by the end of the show's seven-week run. (For a European video version of the pilot, Lynch shot an alternate ending that seems to solve the crime. In it, the actors walk and speak their lines backward, and the film is reversed.) But the two-hour movie, which spans the 24-hour period after discovery of the body, stands superbly on its own. More than a dozen characters are introduced -- all of them connected, each dwelling in a private world -- from the widowed owner...
...plane landed, the pilot announced the time--2.15 p.m. Nine minutes before our scheduled arrival time. A collective groan spread through the cabin. Then the plane began to taxi. And taxi. And it kept on taxiing. We did a tour of the entire LaGuardia runway system. Finally, we arrived at the gate...
...Well, folks, you're in luck," the pilot snickered. "Two twenty-six. A Trump Shuttle representative will meet you at the gate...