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...Hotel for a "Valentine's Book Party" for Hillary Clinton. There was no contribution required; in fact, nothing was asked other than that you wait an hour to park your car and check your coat, and forgo dinner and Thursday night Must-See TV (it was a Friends and Seinfeld kind of crowd: no one seemed much interested in the G.O.P. debate). Clinton gave a short talk and sold a huge stack of books...
...those physical acts intended to cause harm to another; also included were verbal threats of physical harm as well as scenes showing the aftermath of violence. Thus, finding a body in a pool of blood on NYPD Blue counts as a violent act; Kramer bumping into a door on Seinfeld does not. A cartoon character whacking another with a mallet counts; but the accidental buffoonery of America's Funniest Home Videos doesn...
ONCE IT WAS THE UN-GENRE; now it is in danger of overpopulation. We speak of the postmodern comedy of manners, in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk--and talk and talk--about the imminent threat of becoming thirtynothings. They are the Sons of Seinfeld, and among the brightest of their number is Noah Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming, the little fable of half a dozen or so college grads. It's an upmarket Clerks, a less fraught Jeffrey, Barcelona with a faster pulse--or maybe Friends on PBS. Grover (Josh Hamilton) doesn't want his girlfriend Jane (Olivia...
...owing to the fact that network TV was once the massiest mass medium ever invented. It still is, of course, but thanks to the increasing sophistication of audience-measuring "science," networks have learned they can profit by delivering smaller-niche audiences to advertisers. Which means that Seinfeld and Mad About You don't have to appeal to everyone in order to make money; they need only reach 18- to 49-year-olds with lots and lots of disposable income to spend on bmws and Nikes. It thus behooves producers to create shows that are intelligent and quirky because intelligent...
...their arbitrary tics. A third drawback is that seemingly every other character on television is now a white young professional who lives in Manhattan and goes out on unfortunate blind dates; bizarrely, all four of NBC's high-rated Thursday-night comedies (Friends, The Single Guy, Seinfeld and Caroline in the City) are in that vein. Fox at least had the wit to set Partners, one if its twentysomething shows, in San Francisco. But then again, its ratings stink...