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After 19 years, Lehrer is slightly leery of going solo: "There's always been one of us to protect the other one from dumb ideas." While there may be wisdom in this Solomonic separation, in TV news one less face to trust is an enormous loss...
After a decade of smart people playing dumb (the David Letterman syndrome), it's a tonic to watch a show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some...
...Some students thought it was dumb, and others thought it to have some wonderful subtlety," he said. "The debate ranged from views that this show and others had gone too far, to arguments for more freedom. Some people even suggested that 'Beavis and Butthead' should be shown on Saturday mornings...
...time there was no way I could put somebody else in that position," Nero said. "As director of my program, I also try to protect my counselors and my kids. [Osborne] did a dumb thing, but her Harvard education should not be put at risk any more than mine should...
Second, some of the must-miss movies of the summer: The Flintstones. Yabba-dabba-dumb. The one frisson of joy you get from seeing live action versions of all of the dinosaurs disappears about 15seconds into the trailer. What all that talent was doing in there I can hardly imagine. Moment of wit: the B-52's cameo...