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...Moyers, is that illustrated commentary blurs the distinction between news and opinion. The difficulty is television's strange mismatch of eye and ear: the ear often skeptically disputes what it is told, but the eye accepts as reality the picture before it. Words that might seem bland on an Op-Ed page can take on unexpected and unpredictable force when matched with pictures. Perhaps this is why, in a libel case in Cleveland, a federal judge refused to admit the typed transcript of a broadcast as evidence, ruling that the jury would have to decide on the "spoken words...
Simon's screenplay restricts the direction as well as the actions. Even the set design is bland and tiresome: the first father-daughter confrontation is filmed in an annoyingly dull light. The audience's attention is directed away from the screen and toward the repetitious soundtrack. Director Ross ignores the fact that film is a visual medium--more so than the stage on which I Ought to be in Pictures was originally performed: he seems to put his own work on a secondary level to the screenwriter's. This is not a Herbert Ross film: the opening credits...
Making Love is a case of the bland leading what its creators consider to be the blind. Says Director Arthur Hiller of his highly sanitized love scenes: "We weren't trying to say this is how gays make love. This is terribly new for most of the country, so you must lead them into it gently." As for Personal Best, Writer-Director Robert Towne has come to resent his film's identification as a gay tract. "The name of the movie is not 'Personal Fruit.' There are two minutes of lovemaking and an hour of competition...
Brezhnev was clearly fishing for some hint of American acquiescence in a Soviet pre-emptive attack. I gave no encouragement; my bland response was that the growth of China was one of those problems that underlined the importance of settling disputes peacefully. Brezhnev returned to his preoccupation. China's growing might was a menace to everybody. Any military assistance by the U.S. would lead to war. I warned that history proved America would not be indifferent to an attack on China. (The next day the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, stressed that the China portion...
WHAT, THEN, DO people go to the Law School show for? They go for inside jokes, for allusions that seem so bland and obvious on the surface, that you've got to be an insider to enjoy them. Why the mere mention of Professor Duncan Kennedy's wardrobe provokes squeals of joy from the legal eagles. And there's the food at the Hark (yuck!), and the Section Three (whatever that is, it must be a riot, and that killer of a punch line. "Even Archie Cox has his off days.") That's Archie Cox--the professor. A traditional crowd...