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With the new millennium just a few years away, futurism's mixed record is unlikely to dull the human impulse to peer ahead. Everyone should keep in mind, however, that there is only one prediction that can be made with confidence: look for the future to bring a lot more predictions...
...messages, or stay away because they don't. Most likely, they are looking to be seduced by entertainment, not by politics. They know, if Medved doesn't, that the basic stories and attitudes have changed little since the movies were young. Comedy always exalts the clever over the dull; romance promotes the beautiful over the plain; gangster movies and westerns resolve moral dilemmas with fistfights or gunfights. The hero is a fellow cocky toward authority. And drama has always been a charged debate between good and evil. The more vivid the evil -- whether the Nazis in Casablanca or Hannibal Lecter...
...game-show-contestant bent and want to do more than just work in a dull office somewhere, Mark J. Mindich '92 might be something of an inspiration...
...lessons that CTW has taught us about using TV to grab kids' attention. The stories unfold with painful slowness, and the breezy humor of first-rate CTW fare like Square One TV is strangely absent. Though aimed at seven- to 10- year-olds, the show seems too dull-witted and elementary. Looking for clues to the ghostwriter's identity, the kids try to analyze one of his early messages: "Help! Help! Where are the children? Are they all right?" "He sounds scared," muses one sleuth, "and worried about children...
...rebuttal to Quayle will not end there. An upcoming episode of Hearts Afire, a new sitcom set in Washington, features a scene in which a dull-witted conservative Senator (George Gaynes) sees Murphy Brown on TV for the first time. What has Dan Quayle got against that "good-looking woman?" he asks his chief aide (John Ritter). "Well, Senator, she had a baby out of wedlock," the aide says. "But she's not real, is she?" replies the Senator, echoing the snide chorus of derision that greeted Quayle's attack on "a fictional character...