Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world with big weekly budgets and top-drawer directors. But TV's newest mogul is keeping his series under tight wraps to heighten the suspense until its Sept. 29 premiere, leaving both critics and viewers to wonder whether its giant-size ambitions will enhance, or merely overwhelm, the small screen. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which will follow Spielberg's show on Sunday nights, will consist largely of remakes of old Hitchcock episodes. That ploy worked surprisingly well in a TV movie last spring that spawned the series, but it could grow tiresome as the nostalgia wears...
...YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a suspense-action film starring brat packer Mickey Rourke as a hard-nosed New York detective out to expose the crooked dealings of the Chinese mafia, marks Director Michael Cimino's wobbly return to the silver screen after his cinematic catastrophe of 1982, the much-heralded Heaven's Gate. In a vain attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass...
...also uses cartoons, paintings and photographs displayed on a wide screen throughout his lectures, which commonly draw between 150 and 200 students...
Television. Bob Lobel, the Channel 4 sports anchor and the leading area TV personality, gives us Sports Spotlight--a hilarious sports bloopers show--every Thursday night. Don't miss it, and stick with Lobel for all your sports coverage; he usually graces the screen around 6:25 p.m. on the evening shows and 11:20 p.m. on the nightcasts...
...when NBC decided to turn Yerkovich's pilot into a series. Mann had directed the stylish film thriller Thief and the TV movie The Jericho Mile, as well as creating the TV series Vega$. But Miami Vice marked his first opportunity to bring a cinematic eye to the small screen...