Word: hype
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When a child of the 1950s was told that video phones and rocket packs were just around the corner, he believed all the giddy hype, desperately wanted every whiz-bang contraption, couldn't wait for the new technological dawn . . . and then waited, and waited, year after disappointing year, making do with aerosol cheese and pocket calculators and feeling finally that those Jetsons promises might never be fulfilled...
More than anything else, the showmen are worried that the pumped-up glamour and hype on which their businesses depend will leach away if audiences can pick and choose and consume in electronic solitude. "We are standing on a revolutionary threshold," says MCA's Teller of on-line delivery. "But I don't believe the highest form of human existence is sitting at home in a cocoon downloading digital bits...
...such a far distance. His 1987 Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby demonstrated a surging talent. You could hear Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke in his voice, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in his songs. D'Arby quickly got sidetracked from his talent and ensnared in hype, and his second album, full of the kind of brashness that comes from uncertainty, stiffed badly. Symphony or Damn was his last big chance...
...reality-check time in network television last week. After a blizzard of press attention and network hype, ABC finally brought forth Wild Palms, Oliver Stone's dazzling, challenging, future-shocked mini-series. It fizzled in the ratings. After years of twisting and turning in an effort to adapt to a new TV landscape, the networks unveiled their fall schedules. It looked like 1973 again...
TELEVISION: Stay Tuned for the Hype...