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Hype and Spiritual Fads. Mesmerism, spiritualism, Harmonialism, phrenology, rappings, chair movings and other enthusiasms were part of the first age of mass overstimulation and moralism that saw the burgeoning of the sensationalist penny press and Barnumism and freak shows-all the moral equivalents of daytime talk television...
...mechanisms necessary to create an informed populace do exist. In this information-ridden age, almost everyone has access to a television, radio or computer. Television and radio, now flooded with absurd talk (read: freak) shows and gritty (read: fluffy) investigative reporting programs, should be required to carry the information that really does matter...
...LOVE LAS VEGAS IS TO BE A SIZE FREAK. EVERY NEW HOTEL IS THE biggest, every new show the most expensive, every glitzy costume the most faaaabulous! And then there's Debbie. To the owner and star of the Debbie Reynolds Hotel/Casino/Hollywood Movie Museum, smaller is better. It's also all she could afford. Reynolds bought and spruced up the 200-room Paddlewheel Hotel for just $10 million, which is valet-tip money to Steve Wynn. Debbie makes do with her own perky energy. And makes more of less. "Welcome to my new little theater!" she tells visitors...
...that's just because she's a freak...
...Wellman's "A Murder of Crows," we are presented with the Phillips clan--Southern, rural, brutal--at their nadir. Nella (Alexandra Marolachakis) is widowed after her husband dies in a freak accident; she and her children, Susannah and Andrew (Rebecca Wolfe and Dan Goor), are forced to move in with their seamy relatives, who spend most of their time either bickering or at the racetrack...