Word: onscreen
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...viewers, of course, the question of how the networks and studios divide the money may seem to have little bearing on what they see onscreen. But these new network-producer partnerships could have an impact. With a chance to share at last in the back-end revenues, the networks may have a greater incentive to stick with a program that is struggling in the ratings, in the hope it will catch on. Yet many in Hollywood are fearful that the networks will give preference to the shows they produce or own a piece of, making it even more difficult...
Enter interactive media. Once voting-from-home becomes a reality, voter "turnout" will skyrocket. Voter registration will be simple--just turn on your television set. Voting itself will be just as easy--select from the choices presented onscreen. Who wouldn't want to vote when the act becomes as easy as playing a video game...
Europeans seemed less surprised - one way or the other - by the results of the survey. The low numbers tend to confirm the Continental caricature of Americans as flashy and bold onscreen but prone to paralysis in bed. Besides, the findings were pretty much in line with recent studies conducted in England and France that also found low rates of homosexuality and high rates of marital fidelity. (The French will be gratified by what a comparison of these surveys shows: that the average Frenchman and -woman has sex about twice as often as Americans...
...Onscreen, John Travolta had just raised an Adrenalin-filled hypodermic needle above the comatose body of Uma Thurman and, with desperate force, plunged it straight into her heart. In the audience at New York City's Lincoln Center, where Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was being shown, a young man watched this scene and passed out. "Is there a doctor in the house?" someone actually asked. The film was stopped for nine anxious minutes before the announcement came: "The victim is just fine...
...with one friend, a young black man (Mykelti Williamson) dreaming of shrimp boats, and comes home with another, career soldier Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise). And wherever he is, he bumps into famous people: George Wallace and Richard Nixon, J.F.K. and L.B.J., Elvis and John Lennon (all integrated onscreen with Hanks through ingenious special effects). Almost everyone Forrest knows dies. He survives, through his goodness and the miracle of idiot grace...