Word: cops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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24th century: Star Trek forgotten; cult forms around Shatner's '80s cop show, T.J. Hooker...
...Nation-time/ Nation-time/ ready to put in work," the chorus goes, calling for black solidarity. The mesmerizing Black Ego starts with the sound of a policeman reading Butterfly (real name: Ishmael Butler) his rights and the rapper sourly answering, "Oh, like I ever had rights." But unlike cop-hating gangsta rappers, Digable Planets has a constructive rebelliousness. "There are messages in our music for people who are oppressed in America to recognize their oppression," says trio member Ladybug (Mary Ann Vierra). "So this is one little way to help...
...black guy gave me a ride from the California border and dropped me downtown. He gave me a few bucks and encouraged me to get help. I had only the clothes on my back, and I slept outside that night." The next day he talked to a cop and eventually was driven to the Veterans Affairs treatment center in West Los Angeles...
...comics. And the number of movies multiplied as financing got better, and yea, became exceedingly multitudinous on the whole earth. And the voice of comedy became a babble (or babel), impossible to characterize. But there was "Trading Places" and "48 Hours" and "When Harry Met Sally" and "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Ghostbusters" and "Metropolitan" and "A Fish Called Wanda" and "The Player" and "Bob Roberts" and more beyond number and counting. But you've seen all of those, I'm sure...
This is realism of a much different sort from today's "gritty" cop shows or socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...