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...value of a plastic 70s sitcom family living in 90s culture. There isn't anything quite like Marcia Brady. (Christine Taylor, Maureen McCormick's virtual double) in a pink (you guessed it) polyester dress and matching handbag promenading through her high school. Grunge boys gawk at her and a Ricki Lake look-alike lesbian (Alanna Ubach) fawns over her. One boy says, "Marcia Brady's harder to get into than a Pearl Jam concert." The over-the-top acting of the Brady family members (and Alice, too) saves the film, pushing it to unique comic heights...
YOUR ARTICLE ON TALK-SHOW HOST RICKI Lake and the rise of trash TV was very timely [Television, Jan. 30]. Lane's show in particular was the reason I recently had my cable service canceled. I find it very disturbing that trashy people are allowed to go on national TV with the sordid facts, real or fabricated, about their pathetic lives. These are people I would never associate with or ever want to meet. It's maddening to have them on network TV, screaming out from channel to channel. There are viewers watching these shows who feel...
...RICKI AND THE OTHER MEDIA SLEAZE merchants are simply giving the people what they want. It worked for P.T. Barnum, and it still works today...
Producers for the newer talk shows insist they too are trying to be helpful, not exploitative. Usually, however, the uplift consists of simply a few bromides from the host ("Do two wrongs make a right?" Ricki likes to say) and some facile advice from a psychologist or other "expert" brought on for a few minutes at the end of the show...
...woman who appeared as an expert on Ricki Lake describes it as a disturbing experience. Before the show, she found herself in the green room with several of the guests-teens with gripes about a friend's mate. "A producer came in and gave them a pep talk," the woman recalls, "whipping them into a frenzy. She'd say, 'This is your chance to go out and tell the world your side of the story. No physical violence, but yell as much as you want. You won't make points by talking in an even-handed manner.' It seemed very...