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...required some work--10-Man residents rotated half-hour shifts manning the bar (ID required for service) and standing by the door, keeping the crowds from flooding inside. And there were definitely crowds--both outside the door and inside the room...
...committee established in 1989 by actors ALEC BALDWIN (The Hunt for Red October) and RON SILVER (Reversal of Fortune). TCC/West is meeting regularly to map out a public affairs strategy and arrange a televised debate on campaign reform. Also in the talking stage is a series of professionally produced half-hour programs hosted by various stars that will analyze political advertising and explain how it often manipulates the viewer...
...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...
...rule out a presidential bid in 1992, JESSE JACKSON is quietly making plans that could hinder a third run for the Democratic nomination. TV sources say the preacher-politician is negotiating a deal with Cable News Network to host a current-affairs program. The show would probably get a half-hour Saturday-morning slot. His previous effort, a syndicated talk show, was canceled in May because of poor ratings, but Jackson apparently believes he might do better on the all-news network. Hosting the show, though, would make it almost impossible for him to conduct a campaign...
...kids brought up on frenetic Saturday-morning animation, these half-hour videos are leisurely paced and look comparatively low-tech. Visually, they are little more than still pictures strung together in a technique known, rather generously, as dissolve animation. Sales have been moderate (cost: $9.95 or $14.95 a tape), but titles are multiplying rapidly. Following its initial series of 18 storybook classics (Thumbelina, read by Kelly McGillis; The Emperor's New Clothes, with John Gielgud), the company has just launched a new collection of folktales from around the world, featuring stars like Denzel Washington and Max von Sydow. Also...