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...From the creator of gritty real-life dramas like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, the idea seemed downright goofy. Steven Bochco's proposal was to do a TV series set in the White House, in which the affairs of government are seen through the eyes of mice, bugs and other critters roaming around the place. A cartoon, of all things. Network executives, Bochco recalls, greeted his suggestion with all the warmth that Sylvester used to display toward Tweety Pie. "They said, 'What, are you crazy? Take...
What Murphy was looking for when he headed up-country into the wilderness of the self was not unreasonable. He needed to find a screen character that he, and the audience, could live with comfortably over the length of an entire movie. For he was essentially a sketch artist, creator on TV's Saturday Night Live of marvelous and curiously healing parodies of racial stereotypes: Tyrone Green, Velvet Jones, the glorious Buckwheat. His best early movies, 48 Hrs. and Trading Places, permitted him the freedom to do variations on these characters, but he didn't have to carry these pictures...
...from 1969 to 1977, quailing before the likes of Helms and Rohrabacher. The chill makes the NEA much more circumspect about awards, especially to performance artists. And the NEA has limply allowed the opposition to frame the terms of the debate. The grants to Mapplethorpe and artist Andres Serrano, creator of the notorious Piss Christ, were two controversies in 25 years that caused a big public outcry. Two out of 85,000 is statistically insignificant...
...created a $3 million fund at M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory to study "how children learn while they play." "This is not guilt money," insists Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte. The cash will be given, apparently with no strings attached, to support the work of Professor Seymour Papert, creator of the Logo computer language and one of the most influential names in computer education. His research could eventually lead to new and better kinds of Nintendo games...
...enough of this sappy stuff. Jim Henson was a fun guy and the most loveable creator on television. His death doesn't mean the end of Sesame Street. The muppets offer universal and timeless lessons--even for our ivory tower of esoteric knowledge...