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"It's very simple," Rich said. "The whole point of local news shows is to be entertaining, so drama criticism [on television] cannot be good or valuable."

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Drama Critics Critiqued; More 'Advocacy' Needed | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

To buy Sid and Nancy, you have to believe either that Vicious and Spungen were pathfinders of a new sensibility, only too frail to find profit or pleasure in it, or that their symbiotic degradation is in some way instructive or entertaining. But no. The twin evil geniuses of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weird Trios and Fun Couples | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Umberto Eco's novel was a deliciously complex academician's joke: a multiple- murder mystery set in the Middle Ages and starring a Sherlockian monk with the mind-set of a modern semiotician. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's pale "palimpsest" of the novel opts instead for rolling around in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Oct. 13, 1986 | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

I'm happy Falwell is travelling around, endorsing candidates for office and entertaining me in the process. I'm even happier when the candidates lose. But they don't lose as much as they should anymore. That's at least partly because Falwell has tried to hide his prejudice and...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: He Got Off Too Easy | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

Ah, but how entertaining is Captain EO? Pretty entertaining, actually. The first half of the film is an energetic rehash of the Star Wars space battle. The second half is an elaborate Michael Jackson video, in which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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