Word: lames
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway? The season just drawing to a close was hardly encouraging. Musicals like Rent and Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk generated most of the excitement. The few straight plays that succeeded at the box office typically boasted either a big star name--Carol Burnett in the lame farce Moon over Buffalo--or a flamboyant star turn--Zoe Caldwell as rampaging diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's Master Class...
...really missed the boat on his first premises," Brown says. "A couple of them were lame...
...Stand, a syndicated faux talk show, has acquired a small but devoted following since it made its debut in late night last fall. In it Tim Stack (who describes Night Stand as "Must Find TV") assumes the role of indulgent talk-show host Dick Dietrick, a master of the lame double entendre. Fox, meanwhile, is covering its bases in case Mad TV loses its momentum. This spring it will air a variety show, to be produced by Roseanne, that will alternate with Mad. A second project, from screenwriter Steve Kerper, is, according to Lauren Corrao, a development executive...
...movies, when sitcoms like Ned and Stacey make jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series of lame celebrity-sketch conceits--Sonny Bono in Congress, O.J. Simpson peddling testimony on video that he never gave in court. Lorne Michaels had better hope his viewers never discover...
...SICK OF READING LAME DEFENSES OF Internet pornography under the feeble guise of the free exchange of information. Pornography is not information. It is an insidious, infectious disease. Those who value the Internet's potential for building the global community should be at the spearhead of campaigns to defend the Net from antisocial perverts rather than burying their heads in the sand of spineless, amoral political correctness. Societies have always tried to legislate against behavior that threatens vulnerable groups of innocent people. Only criminals object to such laws. ALISTAIR MCNAUGHT Winchester, England...