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...really connected with audiences; three have already been canceled; and even Murder One--everybody's pick as the season's best new series--is in danger of being smothered in the cradle, having to compete first with the closing arguments of the O.J. Simpson trial and now with ER. It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for an industry that employs some of the most craven people on earth...
...currently more first-rate programs on the air than at any time in television's nearly 50-year history: that comedies like The Simpsons and Frasier and Seinfeld more than stand up to I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers; that dramas like NYPD Blue and ER are broadening the scope of narrative art; that, heretical as it may sound, the 1990s are television's real Golden Age, the 1950s and Philco TV Playhouse and Paddy Chayefsky and Winky Dink and You notwithstanding...
...white by a portly guy with an avowed taste for dope, LSI) and a wacked-out artist named Starman, the ten minute film generates a general feeling of Vilencia's love for the camera, his project and the construction paper he tacks on the wall in various configurations (er, images). But at ten minutes, it's five too long...
...that's neither here nor there. The point I'd like to make is that my hours and hours of "O.J. time" were richly rewarded. Forget ER and Murder One. For anyone sentient, the trial was the most compelling show on television. In fact--this may sound odd given that the Simpson saga will probably go down in history as the signal TV event of the 20th century, outstripping even the Kennedy assassination, the first moon walk and any number of very special episodes of Silver Spoons--I think the trial ultimately transcended television. As testimony dragged...
...just as driven in the collaborative world of movies and TV. Though he has written none of the episodes of ER since the pilot, he has stayed closely involved in the production. "He gets all the outlines, all the scripts, all the dailies, all the rough cuts, and then he makes notes," says ER executive producer John Wells. "He's absolutely involved in the day-to-day workings of the show, but he's not in the office 12 hours a day, which is what makes a difference. It's really helpful to have an outside eye." And an outside...