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Some politicians would shed no tears if the network were to meet that fate. Channel 4's news and public affairs programs often seem calculated to rock the boat. A series called Opinions gives a public figure 30-min. of airtime each week to expound on a controversial topic (Germaine Greer on Margaret Thatcher, Edward Teller on nuclear defense). Channel 4's 50-min. nightly newscast skips crime reports and the doings of royalty in favor of probing political analyses and stories on business, science and the arts. A 1985 documentary touched off a political scandal when it revealed that...
...uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much of Channel 4's comedy does not travel well, Consuela, a 40-min. film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), is a neat, funny parody of Hitchcock's Rebecca and half a dozen other psychological horror films...
...this is splendidly orchestrated in quickstep tempo. Aliens never forgets that its basic business is escapist, provided, of course, that your idea of escape is to give yourself over to a 2-hr. 17-min. movie that takes you up the ladder from apprehension to anxiety to fear to flat-out horror. Those big bugs are smart in their yucky way, and they are everywhere. Each time one of their human opponents opens a door or rounds a corner, you know terrible trouble is about to ensue. Anytime someone confidently announces what looks to be a foolproof plan to exterminate...
Getting 100 people to hold hands for a few seconds hardly seems an overwhelming challenge; after all, Hands Across America assembled nearly 5 million for 15 min. But when they are free falling from three miles up, it is a world's record. Over the Fourth of July weekend Guy Manos and Tom Piras of Deland, Fla., headed a group of sky diving aficionados who gathered in Muskogee, Okla., to have a go at breaking their 1983 record of 72 parachutists in cluster formation. Even though 24 previous attempts had ended in failure, hopes were high as the sky divers...
...ocean liner United States broke the transatlantic speed record previously held by Britain's Queen Mary. Time: 3 days 10 hr. 40 min. Last week a 72-ft. racing craft owned and captained by British Airline and Record Magnate Richard Branson clipped 2 hr. 9 min. off the record, earning the "blue riband" traditionally awarded for top speed, and, presumably, the Hales Trophy glorifying it. But the ocean-liner fraternity cried foul. The curator of the U.S. Merchant Marine Museum, where the trophy is housed, refused to yield it to "a toy boat," as he called Branson's $2.3 / million...