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...ratings, the networks have raced into prime-time domestic cliffhangers. There are now four such series on weeknights: Dynasty, Mondays, ABC; Flamingo Road, Tuesdays, NBC; Knots Landing, Thursdays, CBS; and Dallas, Fridays, CBS. As if four hours of hot passions and cold revenge, old money and dirty money, macho patriarchs and mysterious paternities, good people worrying about, doing right and bad people having fun doing wrong were not enough, ABC has reserved three nights (Sunday, Monday and Wednesday) next week for an adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, East of Eden. While this eight-hour TV movie...
They also strike close to the durable American dream of macho romance and derringer-do, the image of cowboy as hero and cowgirl as valiant pardner. Several hundred western-style watering holes feature bucking mechanical bulls on which patrons of both sexes risk serious damage to body and ego (see box). A spot called Outlaws, formerly a mud-wrestling disco outside Chicago, provides roisterers (for $2 a pair) with Harrington & Richardson .22-cal. western-style revolvers and nine blank rounds for mock shootouts. At some places, mostly for atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES...
...Manhattan club: DON'T SHOOT THE BULL-RIDE IT. As a spectator sport, according to Brian Wallace, owner of Boston's Celebration, watching a member of the opposite sex jounce and jiggle "has a very subtle erotic appeal." Bucking the bull is a macho experience for most males, whereas city cowgirls often compare it to dancing-or sex. Says Wallace: "All you need is five or six good-looking girls in tight jeans up on the bull and you've really got a good start on the evening...
...very bad. There is no style, only brutality. I can't catch the names of the next two fighters. I don't want to. I haven't got it in me to even look at the program. Everyone around me is ugly. They are all dressed in macho and Boston College macho. These are all tough guys. The have all had at least one fight in their life and they will talk about it till they die. And they will talk about Marvin Hagler, in bars and to children and grandchildren...
...very first animated Popeye cartoon, while singing his macho theme song, Popeye reveals that, under his shirt, he wears a corset. Robin Williams might have developed this image, but in Altman's limited and narrow Popeye, we never find...