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...Blood:Shock:Boogie" is worth attending, if only to see performer/author Daniel Alexander Jones commanding the stage, moving so seductively that one cannot help but be enraptured by his grace. Jones' presence dominates the piece, overshadowing the two other performers, Daniel Dodd-Ellis and Jason Phelps. A hodgepodge "jam session" of black gay experience, superheroes, soul singing and Julia Child surreal fantasy, "Blood:Shock:Boogie" is wildly entertaining and ingenious at many points. Its greatest attribute is a lack of commitment to narrative and straightforward meaning, so that its entire commentary on life experience rests on the exact moment that...
That gives Carsey-Werner a total of seven shows on the air this fall (Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, Cybill and 3rd Rock are its incumbents), more than any other independent production company--though there aren't many independent companies left for comparison. As media mergers proliferate and most small producers have sought shelter under the umbrella of a studio, Carsey and Werner are determined to keep going it alone. In doing so, they have proved that a couple of smart programmers with good instincts and enough confidence to fight for what they believe in can still be a power...
Carsey and Werner have also become experts in a more conventional TV game: appeasing stars with big egos. Both Roseanne and Brett Butler, the star of Grace Under Fire, have driven out a succession of writers and producers with whom they've clashed over scripts. Cybill executive producer Jay Daniel has just been ousted after a falling out with star Cybill Shepherd--she had been trying to assert more control over her series, reportedly even fighting for more close-ups as shows are being edited...
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...look bitter or lost that last week, didn't look--concussed, as big losers of past history have. He just looked like a man who was enacting a campaign rather than waging it. And I stood in the back of the hall and thought, He's losing with grace because losing is something he knows how to do. I thought of the old poem Invictus...