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Has a popular art form ever been so infatuated with its past? Increasingly, it seems that we are not viewing television so much as perpetually re-viewing it. A network show that becomes a hit is only starting its TV life cycle. The next step is a big syndication deal...
The show's dark tone has apparently given ABC executives some nervous moments. They reportedly asked Bochco to redo the first episode, adding some comic relief; it now contains a subplot about a woman seeking a divorce because her husband thinks he's Elvis. Other problems remain. Civil Wars has...
Most Y-CHOPs are white. The evolving MoVal family has one parent commuting to work and one staying home with two children in a single-family dwelling, in a safe neighborhood with church and grandparents nearby. You can almost see Ward, June, Wally and Beaver Cleaver in the house across...
DIRE STRAITS: ON EVERY STREET (Warner Bros.). Likely you've caught the first single, Calling Elvis, on the radio. The rest of the record is similar: edgy, mysterious, insinuating, with some typically masterly guitar work by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits is the most stylishly surreptitious group in all of rock...
But it is such a safe and cliched form of rebellion for the town to fall for. Yes, he rides his cycle without a helmet, but he is just a nice, handsome, kind, brave white boy who doesn't even use profanity in his raps. He is Elvis in gang...