Word: made-for-tv
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...last Harvard memento, proud parents can buy a video cassette of their offspring's graduation for $130, which includes all seven hours of Class Day--morning and afternoon Exercises. The made-for-TV shortened version will also be available at a reduced cost courtesy of the Harvard Video Services (HVS). Last year 100 tapes were sold, says Robert E. DesMaisons of HVS, adding that he anticipates sales to increase as more people acquire video players...
...right to cull interesting events from real life, mix in some exaggeration and good old-fashioned melodrama and call it art. And, of course, it would be much more vainglorious and self-glorifying for anything called, say, Down and Out With Richard Pryor, to be more than a made-for-TV movie...
...convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired in March 1984, Cagney stood a head above any mob of imitators. Last week he lammed out for good, dying at 86 on his upstate New York farm...
Unlike other TV shows that have utilized rock music, Miami Vice can spend more than $10,000 per episode buying the rights to original recordings, rather than using made-for-TV imitations. The selections have ranged from '50s hits like the Coasters' Poison Ivy to recent numbers from Todd Rundgren, U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The rest of the show's bracing musical score is supplied by Jan Hammer, a Czech-born composer, using sounds stored in a digital computer synthesizer. Working in a state-of-the-art studio in his 150- year-old colonial home near Brewster...
...BOTHER CHECKING TV Guide for the made-for-TV movie on the hijacking of TWA flight...