Word: screening
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...more than the limerick, but it remains a wonderful medium for airing public squabbles. Spike Lee's most recent venting appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat get his dates mixed up?" asks Spike. "The Emancipation Proclamation...
...chip is mandatory on all new televisions, producers and broadcasters have done a lousy job of rating their shows, making the ratings understandable and providing the mandatory three hours a week of "educational and informative" programming for children. Such programs are identified by an E/I icon on the screen, and include heady offerings like NBA: Inside Stuff. (Parents with questions about the V chip and ratings can call 1-877-282-4478 or check cme.org...
...their five children and deciding to "date" while still married to his lady-wife, Weld clearly aspires to Clintonesque activities. Does he truly think his image will remain as Teflon as the President? By thinking that his middle-aged paunch and balding head might possibly be attractive on-screen, in addition to his deplorable treatment of his wife, Weld has remade himself into a less than admirable public figure...
Riegel is shooting her sixth episode today with her small screen debut slated for July...
Meanwhile, the V series languished at the bottom of my briefcase. When I tried to use the minibrowser, the postage stamp-size screen made "browsing" a fantasy. Instead I was stuck with a series of multiple-choice menus that felt like the sats all over again. Besides, typing on a cell phone is bizarre. To produce a D, for example, you hit the 3 key once. To type an F, you hit the same key three times...