Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement about the ethnic culture of the Hawaiians and the reactions of Europeans to it. In fact, it is nothing of the kind. Such a show would be eminently worth doing, but it would require a major curatorial effort. "Hawaii: The Royal Isles" (the kitschy title sounds a warning gong at once) took no such exertion. It was all scooped up from Hawaiian sources, mainly the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, and although it does contain a dozen or so objects of striking intensity and handsomeness, it is meager in general quality. Only international loans could have produced a first-rate...
Only NBC is in the chips because Fred Silverman, the network's president, long ago put his bet on "reality programming" like Real People, Games People Play and Speak Up America. It may be a dubious TV genre-mixing 60 Minutes with The Gong Show-but it is one unaffected by the strike. With such shows, plus the World Series, Magazine with David Brinkley, Disney's Wonderful World and new episodes of three old series, NBC can boast that through the end of October, it will air 75% new programming. The capricious god who filched the Olympics from...
...most famous of the grotesque games come from the fevered imagination of Chuck Barris. Beginning with The Dating Game (1965) and continuing through The Newlywed Game, The Gong Show and The $1.98 Beauty Contest, he has made a habit of finding contestants who willingly expose their sad sexual inadequacies, their inept performing skills and their physical homeliness to a nationwide audience. In Barris' latest and grossest gem, Three's a Crowd (which might well be titled The Divorce Game), wives and secretaries compete to see who knows the most intimate details about the man whom they share...