Word: fi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like one of King's long-winded novels, Golden Years takes its sweet time unfolding. But the result is unusually dense and evocative TV drama. At times the show recalls another TV excursion into paranoid sci-fi: The Prisoner. That short-lived cult hit came and went during the summer...
...transcendental rehab movies -- Ghost and its spectrally sentimental cousins -- in which people return from the void to get a chance to say (What else?) "I love you." Audiences lose themselves in a teary mixture of awe and awww at these wistful fantasies, which now constitute an entire genre: sigh-fi...
...that the picture will be a hit -- not because it is so smart about many small things but because it is so shameless in promoting its one big thing. Like the other sigh-fi movies, Regarding Henry says any mortal catastrophe offers an opportunity to erase the chalkboard mess we have made of our lives. We can make amends and have great sex too. By serving up comfy antidotes to illness and death, these movies provide a seductively meretricious form of release: New Age religion on the cheap. How like Hollywood to insist that the slogging drama of most people...
...industry as a successor to cassettes," says Sony president Norio Ohga. That sounds a lot like what the company said only last fall as it introduced the digital audio-tape Walkman. But now Sony argues that there is room for both DAT, aimed at hi-fi fetishists, and MD, whose lower price, smaller size and ease of use should appeal to the masses. Provided, of course, the masses will pop for yet another audio device...
KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE (Showtime, May 15 and 20). Three adaptations of short stories by the sci-fi fabulist. Hardly first-rate Vonnegut (more like second-rate Rod Serling), but more fun than most anything else on TV this month...