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...straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet hookup, those favorites will appear on the air regularly, in 5- or 6-sec. bursts, much like the network promos we now see. You know the ones: Ross from Friends dancing in a bubble held by Rachel, then getting...
Before there were webcams, there was Frederick Wiseman. Like the Internet cameras that film cubicles and street intersections nonstop, Wiseman creates unblinking images--exhaustive, exhausting, narration-free cinema-verite documentaries. The 4-hr. 8-min. Belfast lingers over daily life in a small blue-collar town: marriages, doctors' exams, factories, a read-through of Death of a Salesman. While Wiseman's vignettes can be mesmeric, they're too often simply tedious and excessive. And it smacks of self-congratulation for the public-TV gentry to do these working-class commoners the mere favor of acknowledging--as the Salesman reference suggests...
...mail when you get home from work. But in substance, they're all operating from the same playbook: cram your site with information arrayed as efficiently as possible for the busy exec who needs to find an idea for her kid's Halloween costume during her 15-min., yogurt-at-her-desk lunch break. "Men are content to explore and play games with this technology," asserts Sarah Cabot, co-founder of the women's-tech site SheClicks.com "Women want to solve problems. The sites that get that are the ones that will succeed with this market...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] Removal of field-size Caribbean map causes 11-min. game delay...
...will unveil "Tapestry of Nations," a global-diversity play narrated by Edward James Olmos and featuring aerial dancers, puppets, a multigenerational choir, a symphony orchestra, and music by Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and Christina Aguilera. Too much? Perhaps, though the quality of the Super Bowl's 10-min. themed extravaganzas may actually be improving. Some historical evidence...