Word: seinfeldisms
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...share of the league title in the process. And you know the planets aren’t properly aligned when Harvard football loses two in a row to the Tigers. The last time that happened? Well, let’s just say that I was eight years old, Seinfeld was just hitting its prime, and Michael Jordan was a minor league baseball player...
Well, kind of. The pilot of 30 Rock (Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 11) has a scene in which the writers challenge an actor to do impressions--Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano. "There's a new promo [for Studio 60] that NBC showed me," Fey says, "and someone in it was saying, 'Show me your Tom Cruise.' I said, 'Oh! I guess there is a little overlap...
...Like Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who declared there would be no hugging and no learning on his show, Ray drew up criteria for every segment: there could be no crying or finger wagging; it would have useful information for viewers of every age and class, and it would make the audience laugh. "I hope people feel more alive around the edges after they watch us," she says. Either that or they'll feel exhausted...
...movies like “Pay It Forward” had a quaint premise but were hokey and fantastic almost to the point of absurdity. I had laughed with millions when Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer got arrested for violating the Good Samaritan law in the last episode of Seinfeld. After all, people always do what’s best for themselves, going their various ways without thinking twice about strangers, let alone going out of their way for one. I figured I’d thank Marty by giving him a reward...
Large corporations are sliding down the tail. Television networks, for example, are having mixed success in making the long tail work in a business that revolves around discovering the next Seinfeld. They found a place for reruns of long-forgotten television shows, on cable channels like the Game Show Network and SoapNet. But they have not yet figured out whether they should consider YouTube, the massively popular online-video site, as their worst enemy or new best friend...