Word: hbo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME: MAY 12, 18, HBO...
Oops. Carlin's new hbo special was taped two weeks ago, well before the Los Angeles riots, but that won't make his bitterly ironic tirade any less discomfiting to viewers watching it now. Carlin himself, in fact, may be the only person it won't bother. Making people uneasy is his business...
Carlin is unfairly pigeonholed, however, as a leftover '60s radical. The real targets of his satire are cant and cliche, phoniness and self- righteousness, wherever he finds them. At the beginning of a 1990 HBO concert, he rattled off a list of New Age terms banned from his vocabulary: "I will not 'share' anything with you. I will not 'relate' to you, and you will not 'identify' with me. I will give you no 'input,' and I will expect no 'feedback.' " Euphemisms that cloud our thinking are another favorite topic: "Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue, false...
...career death. During the '80s Altman lived mainly in Paris, returning to the States to direct small movies (Streamers, Beyond Therapy) that did little to rekindle the passion of his erstwhile devotees. Not many people saw Tanner '88, Altman and Garry Trudeau's highly original cinema verite series for HBO about the 1988 presidential campaign, but it did get the cultural mandarins buzzing positively again...
...bold predictions that the Japanese would sell 500,000 HDTV sets a year by 1991 -- and a price cut that brought the cost of those sets from $30,000 to $7,700 -- few people are buying or watching. Things could move faster in the U.S., the home of Hollywood, HBO and Monday Night Football. But digital HDTV is likely to remain a toy for the adventurous -- or the rich -- until the early years of the 21st century...