Word: oedipus
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Emerald Point's producers call their show, which stars Dennis Weaver as an admiral with three lubricious daughters, "a modern King Lear." (Then what's Dallas? Oedipus Tex?) This and the other new dramas offer the easy thrills of a paperback bought at a bus terminal; even the season's best sitcoms, Just Our Luck and Mr. Smith, are no more demanding than a vintage comic book in Dad's attic. Still, trash has its charms. Herewith a look at ten fall shows, good, bad and same-different...
...Japan, where Freud is of small importance and his Oedipus complex makes little sense, a Tokyo therapist once proposed a more applicable myth for his nation. Called the Ajase complex by the late psychoanalyst Heisaku Kosawa, it comes much closer to the heart of the child-mother relationship in Japan...
...rise of video, and cable's MTV, spurred some angry words. WBCN's program director, Oedipus, argued that video "defines a song in a visual context," and Wendy Heide, WMBR, added "it creates a passive audience. Viewers don't have to use their imagination," WZBC's program Jim McKay bluntly accused MTV of "playing music over and over--beating it into your brain." Obviously video is not a loved media among the audio jacks...
Talk of video led-into abused aimed at MTV. While Oedipus claims that it has not affected sales in this area, it has affected the requests WBCN gets from its younger audience of a station's program director to choose music and still remain commercially viable. The limited repertoire of MTV will influence what audiences want to hear on FM radio. Long an outpost of innovative rock, WZBC's McKay summarized the D. J. panel's attitude: "I don't think MTV is doing anything for innovative music. It's not taking a lot of chances...
...polemics tracing alcoholism in German and Russian authors (Chekhov's last words: "Let's have some champagne!"), even as his own journey takes on a mythico-literary cast. Erofeev is Sheherezade, avoiding one thousand and one train fares by telling obscene stories to chief Ticket Inspector Semyonych. He is Oedipus, parrying the ribald riddles of a drunken Sphinx. He is Dante descending through the Moscow circles of Hell, his Virgil a bottle of Stolychnaya. And in the tragic denouement, Erofeev becomes Christ on Golgotha, crying out in anguish "Why, oh Lord, did you forsake...