Word: made-for-tv
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That politics appears only to be television spectacle denudes it--dissolves it into the rest of the homogenized junk on the airwaves--no more than a music video, or a sitcom or a made-for-TV movie; just as easy to tune out, just as irrelevant to daily life. The language of Madison Avenue is the language of pollsters is the language of politics...
...Bill Clinton responds to near-weekly allegations with little more than a made-for-TV smile, some voters seem to think that his response typifies easy Southern charm and resilience. My inkling is that Clinton is just a candidate who can already smell the velvet drapery of the Oval Office...
That is the abiding charm of the Olympics: in an age of made-for-TV political campaigns and prepackaged beauty contests, they are almost the only universally watched events that seem decidedly unpredictable. And in that sense the Games have not changed at all. Yes, it is true that geopolitics has produced almost as many miracles as sports since the last time the world met under the five Olympic rings; a bipolar world is now multicultural. But John le Carre, the poet laureate of the cold war, has not seen fit to lay down his pen. He recognizes, it seems...
...from Scott Turow's first novel, Presumed Innocent, with the flabby, enervated miniseries ABC has made from his second, THE BURDEN OF PROOF (Feb. 9-10, 9 p.m. EST). To be sure, this later novel -- about a prominent defense attorney who uncovers a web of shady dealings and family secrets after his wife's suicide -- is a more complex, less easily digested work. Still, it might have clicked if the convoluted plot had not sprawled over four padded hours. Or if the made-for-TV cast had been better. Hector Elizondo plays the defense attorney in one monotonous key: prissy...
Anita Hill didn't know how easy she had it. Compared with the women being manhandled every week in made-for-TV movies, Clarence Thomas' accuser got kid- glove treatment from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Consider just a few story lines from recent or soon-to-air network films...