Word: escapists
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...film may have looked escapist at the time. But its central themes -- the conflicting claims of loyalty, ambition and love, the psychic links between the artist-outsider and the outlaw, the irrational constraints imposed on performers by aesthetic dunces in high places -- had immediate relevance for Carne and his colleagues. Now a wonderfully imaginative troupe of French origin, settled for more than a decade in Minneapolis, has found the melodrama surrounding the making of the movie just as rich a wellspring...
...question of entertainment or enrichment. These are complementary concerns and presuppose each other. The story that entertains without enriching is superficial and escapist. The story that enriches without entertaining is simply dull. The story that does both is a delight...
...responsibility to protect the common good to produce an almost total preoccupation with the bottom line. The networks are struggling to survive. And like most businesses in that situation, they make only what they feel the public will buy. And that, the statistics seem to indicate, is mindless, heartless, escapist fare. If we are dissatisfied with the moral content of what we are invited to watch, I think we should begin by examining our own consciences. When we tune in, are we ready to plunge into reality, so as to extract its meaning, or are we hoping to escape into...
...popularity. They reflect, to a large degree, the experiences and life-styles of the people who create them. They attract the audience demographics that advertisers crave. They usually get applause from the critics -- or at least approving nods for trying to bring "quality" to a medium dominated by escapist drivel...
...escapist drivel, meanwhile, is going after a younger crowd. TV's hottest new genre is the twentysomething ensemble show. Melrose Place (a spinoff of Beverly Hills 90210), The Heights (about a group of blue-collar New Jersey youths trying to launch a rock band) and 2000 Malibu Road, a soap opera set in a California beach house, all drew strong ratings this summer. Coming this fall are NBC's The Round Table (young professionals in Washington), Fox's Class of '96 (students at a small Northeastern college) and a slew of youth- oriented sitcoms...