Word: ers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surf the Web and send e-mail from the couch. The TiVo box knows better. The new service, available in the next year from some cable operators, lets you pause, rewind or watch regular TV in slow motion--handy during a ball game or when the phone interrupts ER. TiVo will also store up to 20 hours of programming based on your viewing habits. One thing it won't do is skip commercials...
...ER (NBC) O.K., maybe the new story line about Carter and his protege is strained, but ER remains compelling week in and week out. It also remains atop the ratings, proving that quality and popularity can go together. As TV fragments, and another fall season comes to grief for the big networks, ER seems like the last universal...
...SPORTS NIGHT (ABC) Of all the shows that premiered this season, only this one was at all intriguing. Set at a fast-paced cable show, Sports Night is a sort of ER with jokes--the camera work, the dialogue and the conflicts are similar to those of TV dramas, but it offers wry comedy and could lead sitcoms in a welcome new direction...
...tell you my way first. As the tech columnist for the nation's pre-eminent newsweekly, I naturally need the biggest, fastest, scariest computer in the land. And since my company is buying, damn the expense. I require video and 3-D cards to run the coolest games...er, spreadsheets; at least 96 megabytes of RAM so I can keep half a dozen programs open at once; a 17-in. monitor so I can see it all and a 10-gigabyte hard drive to store it. Also, stereo speakers with a subwoofer that rumbles like the voice of God, just...
...crazily wonderful as the guys in the show are, the dolls--er, women--are their perfect match. All of the "Hot Box" Girls (who double as "extra dolls" and Cuban dancers)--Elizabeth Darst, Jody Flader, Mari Foreman, Esther Riggen, Jamie Smith and Phoebe Taubman--give performances of a lifetime. As "Hot Box" girls, they cackle and strut with such all-out campiness that it defies words (the "A Bushel and a Peck" number wins my vote for "Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen on a Harvard Stage"), and the spicy Havana dance scene both awes the audience members and heats...