Word: geritol
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...tick us off? We've got more money floating around in Washington on any given day than you guys make in 20 sweep weeks. So straighten up and fly right or, dammit, we'll have our buddies over at the FCC close you down faster than you can say 'Geritol...
...unbelievable how frightened some journalists are of anybody outside their profession digging around," Stone says. "Critics will say we're the conspiracy cranks, but on the contrary--if there's no conspiracy, fine." Stone understands, moreover, that the average viewer of network news is a candidate for Geritol: "We want to do the same thing as 60 Minutes but in a new kind of way that makes it hip." In other words, his show could delight us with dark possibilities and then bore us with the truth. If so, it would be indistinguishable from, say, 20/20...
...troop home to their TV set like sheep to the slaughter (with those same emblematic '50s-family-glued-to- th e-TV shots that Stone uses in Natural Born Killers). Every TV executive is a cartoon villain, from sleazy Twenty-One producer Dan Enright to the Mephistophelian head of Geritol, the show's sponsor, to the smug network chief who sounds like Don Corleone when he tries to get Charles Van Doren to deny that the shows were fixed: "Haven't we been good to you? Haven't we treated you as part of our family...
...nominated for three Country Music Association awards. With her fourth album, Come On Come On, she displays a fully matured talent, her sure alto caressing a wide variety of musical settings (rock, blues, art song) for her lyrics. Carpenter's literary allusions have run from Eudora Welty to old Geritol commercials, but the usual subject of her songs is love -- old love, careless love. So what else is new? The range of feelings she mines. At its best, love is hard work, like a decent blue-collar job ("Everything we got, we got the hard way"). At its worst...
...SPORT: Geritol jocks find life on the senior tours...