Word: realism
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...least not yet. Stone says Wild Palms could "absolutely" work as a series. And if America next week is buzzing about rhinos, Church Windows and New Realism, it will be hard for ABC to avoid bringing Wild Palms back in some form. That, in the world of network TV, is known as the Old Realism...
...starts taking strange turns when an ex-girlfriend (Kim Cattrall) seeks his help in locating her missing son. The mission turns out to be a ruse to lead Harry to Senator Tony Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) -- presidential aspirant, television entrepreneur and guru of a political-religious movement known as New Realism. Kreutzer's neofascist aspirations have something to do with hallucinogenic drugs, new technology that enables people to interact with holograms, and a battle between underground political camps known as the Fathers and the Friends...
...BOTTOM LINE: Magic realism veers into toxic gray as Thomas Jefferson's guilt haunts an alternate America...
...with love, passion and implacable hatred, sets out on foot to find him. The journey takes her west to Indian country. But it is longer than that; she and the reader have passed into a region of what, if this were a Latin American novel, would be called magic realism. But here there is no green, sun-shot jungle life force, only the fogged, toxic gray of brutish, dying cities...
...Carver's performance is typical. Hardly anyone involved with the musical admits to having liked the movie or to having studied it during the years of revision. Prince dismisses it as "a glamorous trick." The style he sought, along with Kander, Ebb and librettist Terrence McNally, was the magic realism of Latin American fiction, in which everyday behavior lurches into the weird. If there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince...