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...Beastie Boys mime masturbation onstage. Rap poets like N.W.A. and the 2 Live Crew call for the fire of war against police or the brimstone of explicit, sulfurous sex. Comedians like Sam Kinison and Howard Stern bring locker-room laughs to cable TV and morning radio. On network television, sitcom moms get snickers with innuendos about oral sex. In movies, the F word has become so common, like dirty wallpaper, the industry's conservative ratings board doesn't even bother to punish the occasional use of it with a restrictive R rating...
...entertainment shows, began its three-month $7.5 million test last week, broadcasting from Florida to the few insomniacs awake in Havana when the signal came in at 1:30 a.m. Within minutes, jammers blocked TV Marti's signal, denying Havana the delights of a Spanish-dubbed Kate & Allie sitcom, World Series reruns, a Spanish game show called La Feria de la Alegria (The Happiness Fair) and MTV music videos...
...conserve a dwindling share of the TV audience, they are depending more and more on the drawing power of sports. "Sports is the one thing that comes to TV somewhat presold," says Larry Gerbrandt, senior analyst for Paul Kagan Associates. "If you're going to break in a new sitcom, you've got to launch a campaign of awareness. When you add a sports package, people already know what they are getting." The biggest events, moreover, can galvanize the nation around the TV set as few entertainment shows do. This year's Super Bowl, a lopsided contest, drew lower than...
...York City, the U.S. media capital, has become a metropolis where most of the newspapers offer not just one gossip page but three or four. They feature glimpses of everyone from sitcom heroes and sports stars to obscure if self- important entertainment and publishing executives, social-climbing plastic surgeons and dress designers, deposed royalty, offspring of ousted dictators and legions of the nouveaux riches or, rather, nouveaux gauches...
...tapes are screened by an overworked staff of 15. Though labor-intensive, the show is a relative bargain to produce: even after giving away a $10,000 prize for the best scene each week, the program costs less per episode than an average sitcom. "The whole idea of this show," says Di Bona, "is to have America produce...