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...television will never be the same again? Every spring the familiar rituals are repeated: the well-hyped fall-season announcements; another batch of new shows competing for attention (a record-high 35 this season, when Fox is added to the Big Three); a fresh onslaught of optimistic projections from chipper network executives...
...course, any modern fair is obliged to give frequent lip service to a kind of chipper one-worldism (110 countries have exhibits -- an all-time world's fair record!) and to environmental sensitivity (organizers planted 300,000 shrubs on the site!). Moreover, the gee-whiz, spick-and-span perkiness found in New York's Flushing Meadows in 1964 is strikingly evident in Seville. At any moment, one expects to see teams of Esperanto-speaking U.N. technicians in lab coats disembarking from Hovercraft to brief James Bond...
Fine Arts majors are clitist and cliquey, and Visual and Environmental Studies majors are unhappy because they feel they must suffer for their art, but people who take only Literature and Arts B courses are friendly and chipper. Undergrads, grad students and professors smile at one another. The teaching fellows dress stylishly. Besides, the courses all have such cool nicknames. In what other department can you take "Spots and Dots," "Strings for Dings" and "Clapping for Credit...
Fortunately for me, I don't have to submit to any more such "concerts." But no Harvard student--no matter how careful--can avoid the sickly sweet melodies and chipper smiles of a cappella groups in their classrooms, on posters and in their dining halls...
...Verhoeven, this chipper satire may be part autobiography; his father Paul directed movies -- operettas, mostly -- during the Nazi era. So The Nasty Girl has perhaps allowed a gifted filmmaker to shake and break the bones of a family skeleton as well as a national one. German moviegoers have taken The Nasty Girl as if it were good medicine; they have made it a big homeland hit. But to Americans, the dose will taste like sugar candy with magical nutrients. Rarely does a history lesson evoke a 95-minute smile. This one does...