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Simon says he doesn't want to discourage salutary, upper-middle-class violence on TV, such as that of The Civil War on PBS. Yet his research avalanche makes no distinction between George Romero and Ken Burns in attributing crime to TV mayhem. Nope, violence is violence -- and Looney Tunes, with 1.33 violent acts a minute, is four times as bad as MTV, with only .33. Bugs Bunny creates sociopaths? "I don't want to dismiss cartoon violence," the Senator says...
...been a dull TV season; now for a little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes...
...circle is indeed closed -- if six men armed with nothing much more than credit cards and fervent belief can cause hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damage in America's largest city -- it may be the worst news of all, an inducement to further mayhem. Not long ago, when state-sponsored terrorism was the reigning speculation, Harry Brandon, Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI, said, "I don't think the World Trade Center is the beginning of a new wave of terrorism. But it remains a relatively cost- effective way to advance national policy in a violent...
...There was a car with two girls in it and somehow this guy wound up kicking in the windows," said James Akula, a 17 year-old Cambridge resident who was standing in the Pit during the mayhem...
...ongoing comedy of errors and mistaken identities results in stylized mayhem and confusion in the palace. Clever cross-gender casting by director Billy Hulkower adds an uproarious touch, furnishing an endless supply of thoroughly silly, but funny, gags...