Word: patters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHITE NOISE is the apotheosis of talk-show patter: every aspect of life is briefly touched upon, from urban alienation to the difficulty of finding good German language lessons, and all are left burnished and gleaming after doing their turn in the Don DeLillo kitschmobile. Where's the beef? Everywhere--shredded like so many ground-up Gainesburgers...
...Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves a full-time job on ABC next fall...
Some priests have flocks; Father Tim Farley (Jack Lemmon) has fans. The 5:20 Mass is S.R.O. for this Johnny Carson in alb and chasuble, who keeps the customers satisfied with ingratiating patter-dinner and a show for the price of your soul. Off-pulpit, Father Farley is a bit of a sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach...
Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead entered the equation...
...arrogance of television is its assumption that its own maunderings are more interesting than what is being said on the platform -that you would rather hear Rather speak smugly, as he did in San Francisco, of the "pitter-patter of platitudes" than hear the hoarse Irish oratory of Speaker Tip O'Neill, which CBS did not carry. Networks cover tennis matches with more fidelity to the action...