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Which raises the question whether Beyond Therapy is just a not always lighthearted attack on the modern self indulgences of uncertain sexuality, crazier-than-thou psychoanalysts and Perrier water. Even if they are old hat, the problems of loneliness and confusion with which the play deals are real to most...

Author: By Susie Kim, | Title: What Do They Want? | 11/1/1985 | See Source »

With its rich, almost operatic texture and stripped-down story lines, Miami Vice has brought TV's cops-and-robbers genre back to its roots: the mythic battle between good and evil. Such battles were once commonplace on TV, in westerns like Gunsmoke and The Rifleman, and in an earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cool Cops, Hot Show | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

Ebert (harumphing): "On the contrary, Gene, I think I can say that right from the beginning I identified Steinman's genius. Once again, you're just being squeamish. His is a lighthearted world, poking well-aimed jests at one of society's most cherished values: namely, the preconception that mutilating...

Author: By Jeff Chest, | Title: They're Still Heeeere...' | 4/12/1985 | See Source »

In the mid-'70s Fred Pierce, the aggressive former vice president of TV planning and development who had become president of ABC Television in 1974, engineered a stunning turnaround. His first major move was to hire Silverman away from CBS to head ABC's programming department. Under the guidance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Battling Back From No. 3 | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

TV was once filled with happy families and harmonious relationships. But ever since Archie Bunker squared off against Meathead in Norman Lear's All in the Family, tongue-in-cheek antagonism has become the engine that drives most TV sitcoms--and, in the past few seasons, a spate of lighthearted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Spring Sparring Partners | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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