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These people's careers and reputations depend on getting the information on a breaking story faster than their competitors. And it doesn't look good when some dopey college newspaper gets the scoop So getting information such as the location of Lee, who is a target of the investigation of the situation, is vital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons not just the performers who are the channel's raison d'etre, but mercilessly depicts MTV's dopey, antisocial, suburban-boy audience. And what do the living, breathing Beavises and Butt-heads of America think of the caricature? It is MTV's most popular show by far, with ratings at least twice as high as those of plain old irony-free music videos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator: Are Beavis and Butt-head Arty? | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...word again. Tribeca, the first TV series from Robert De Niro's New York City-based Tribeca Productions, is sure to be hailed by critics as "quality" television. The term once conveyed innocent praise, but lately it has become freighted with sanctimoniousness -- a club to beat the heads of dopey network executives who won't renew Brooklyn Bridge. TV shows should not strive for "quality." They should strive to be good. Tribeca is a good show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtown Pleasures | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...reflexive knock against The Player is that its satire is too inside. In the opening scene, for instance, the studio executive played by Tim Robbins sits listening to a series of real-life screenwriters pitching plausibly dopey movie ideas -- among them Buck Henry, who co-wrote The Graduate, proposing a ridiculous Graduate sequel. Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay and the 1988 novel on which The Player is based, also appears in the film as a screenwriter. But all the in-jokes are a secondary pleasure, not the essence. Even if you don't know what turnaround means, The Player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Player Once Again: ROBERT ALTMAN | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...years, Kreimer was one of the "status people," a catchall phrase he uses to describe middle-class workaday folks. He grew up in a prosperous household, the son of Victor and Katy Kreimer, a prominent local couple. But even as a kid, friends recall, he was kind of "dopey," a bit rebellious and unmotivated in school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Of His Own Sad Comedy: RICHARD KREIMER | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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