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...danger of the latter possibility, much of the networks' fall schedule is devoted to uninspired formula fare. Of the 19 new shows, nine will feature crime fighters of various kinds, from an ex-Government agent who offers his services to people in trouble (CBS's The Equalizer) to a quartet of oddball superheroes in NBC's Misfits of Science. Comedy, meanwhile, has gone back to the basics: three of the five new offerings revolve around wholesome nuclear families--two of them black--in an obvious effort to duplicate the recipe that made The Cosby Show last season's runaway...
...past tense for these cultural icons. With the possible exception of McCarthy, they continue to live in an eternal present, their stature growing with successive generations. No ands, ifs or relativities about it--this unlikely quartet looms larger than life in the consciousness of Middle America...
...feast of slick weekly series in three broad categories: the traditional situation comedy, led by last season's phenom The Cosby Show (2nd in the yearlong Nielsen ratings to CBS's Dallas) and including Family Ties (3rd), Cheers (9th), Night Court (19th) and The Facts of Life (24th); a quartet of red-meat adventure shows, from The A-Team (6th) and Riptide (12th) to Miami Vice (33rd, with a bullet); and three Emmy-laden hours from Tinker's old production company, MTM Enterprises. Hill Street Blues (31st), St. Elsewhere (52nd) and Remington Steele (21st) may not woo the Nielsen families...
...looking for the Fountain of Youth and discovered Florida. For three elderly gents in a St. Petersburg retirement home, the situation is happily, treacherously reversed: without looking for it, they find the Swimming Pool of Youth in a mansion next door. The place has been rented out to a quartet of folks with the musk of mystery about them. They are, of course, from outer space -- Antarea, to be exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast and are now being...
...with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long had a fascination with the otherworldly. In such works as Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, the two piano suites of Makrokosmos and the string quartet Black Angels, he combines a distinctive, flamboyant sense of instrumental color with a darkling imagination that results in some chillingly effective music. A Haunted Landscape employs an amplified piano and an exotic battery of more than 45 different percussion instruments to paint a vibrant picture of a ghostly landscape, whose...