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Print journalists who appear frequently on TV have a phrase they use after they say something silly or make a factual error. "It's just TV," they shrug, and you can understand the attitude. The conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with...
...FREAKS AND GEEKS (NBC) Television has rarely got adolescence as hilariously, soul-crushingly right as in this bittersweet paean to Midwestern childhood circa 1980. With a cast that actually looks and sounds like kids, not Gap models, Freaks takes teen-show stereotypes--nerd, burnout, clueless parent--and fleshes each out with humor and heart...
...knows a good story when he sees one--his last triumph was the sweeping, stony The English Patient-- and he treats Tom Ripley's tale like David Lean on an epic bender. The thriller story becomes woven into a gorgeous, glorious travelogue through the high points of Italian sightseeing, circa 1957. And, I'll admit, I'm a sucker for a pretty shot of Roman sunlight...
...Essentials promise "an evening of manicured sonics and tell-tale coiffure in the tradition of club-circuit Berlin circa 1980," with themes of repetition, exaggeration and anachronism in sublimated soul music. The band will be selling their Christmas 7" at the show and a live CD and LP, out on English Muffin/Swill Records, is forthcoming...
...years, as you know. But now that the millennium is actually upon us, examining these old prophecies can help drive home some fundamentals. Besides, it's fun. So before I get to the lessons, allow me a couple of shots at Wall Street's vision of the '90s, circa...