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...event that TV historians may one day call the Last Gasp of the Mini- Series will come next week. That is when ABC launches the biggest, most expensive, most just-about-everything-else mini-series in TV history: Herman Wouk's War and Remembrance. A sequel to Wouk's The Winds of War, which drew vast ratings back in 1983, the drama will spend 32 hours (17 1/2 this month, an additional 14 or so next spring) recounting America's experience in World War II, mostly through the eyes of a fictional naval officer, Victor ("Pug") Henry, and his family...
...Just the facts, ma'am.' " Dan Quayle defined himself through the silver screen: "I identify with that movie Hoosiers." New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean sometimes sounded like a disgruntled movie critic: "They ((the Democrats)) may try to talk like Dirty Harry. But they will still act like Pee-wee Herman...
...viewers may not mind what looks to be a glut of reruns. The Olympics will enable NBC to showcase commercials for its roster of upcoming series. ABC has assigned that promotional role, among others, to the first 18 hours of War and Remembrance, a $105 million adaptation of Herman Wouk's World War II novel. Originally scheduled for February, it was already in production before the strike began and in the absence of other strong programs was moved up to the key ratings month of November, when local-station ad rates are set. A few less grandiose series and made...
...this kid kingdom, Pee-wee Herman is the prince of prepuberty. For almost a decade, Actor-Writer Paul Reubens, 35, has presented himself as Pee-wee, a gawky, geeky child. The spectacle is both corny and hip, retrograde and avant- garde. It turns Pinky Lee, the '50s kids' show host, into a subject for performance art. At first Pee-wee was a coterie favorite of adults, but with his 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure and his Saturday-morning TV show, Reubens has gained a huge peanut gallery. Even for those who found the Pee-wee persona grating, there...
...said. Enough already. I've had it with video myths. From now on, it's nothing but Pee-wee Herman and Celebrity Bowling...