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...Actually, that's not quite true. I saw 15 minutes of an early episode, and, I'm not kidding, it literally put me to sleep. Which is often a good thing, and if the nice folks at CBS would like to rerun the show at 11:30 p.m. ET (right after the 11 o'clock "Simpsons," thank you very much) I would be most grateful. It was all quite beautiful and quiet, all palm trees and long shots of ocean and people exchanging meaningful glances that meant nothing to me, and I at first thought that Terrence Malick had decided...
...reminded of those Naderites the other day when I was watching a "Sports Night" rerun on Comedy Central. Dan, a television sportscaster played by Josh Charles, has been ordered by the network to make an on-air apology to viewers because he said in a magazine interview that he supports the legalization of marijuana. He stands by his opinion and balks at apologizing. His boss Isaac (Robert Guillaume) agrees, but tells him to do it anyway "because it's television and this is how it's done." Dan replies, "Yeah, well sitting in the back...
...curb can be funny to a nine-year-old, watching him trip with Gerald Ford is funny to anyone who knows anything about Gerald Ford. Essentially, viewers are weaned on "The Simpsons." They are hooked at a very early age, and keep coming back. Every time I watch a rerun episode "I get" a joke I had missed the last time, and "The Simpsons" earns a fresh laugh. Not until I had taken a few months of physics did I get Homer's joke: "Lisa built me this perpetual motion machine--it just keeps getting faster and faster...LISA...
...around with various ball-related games. CBS was locked out of British Open coverage but found a way to bore us anyway with "The Story of Golf" (a repeat, I might add), which ran from 2:30 to 5 in the afternoon. Prime Sunday advertising territory - lost to a rerun...
...great imagined axis across the Thames, with Wren's dome of St. Paul's at the opposite end. It is not an effort of heroic originality. It doesn't strut or blow or, like I.M. Pei's Louvre entrance, invoke the Pyramids of Egypt. It is not a rerun of noble history but an adaptation, a conversion job, of something very large...