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...quick visual bites that are perfect for today's limited technology and attention spans. Twenty-second-long cartoons--like those on Doodie.com or the one with the cabaret-singing alien doing I Will Survive who gets killed by a falling disco ball--now get e-mailed around the way Seinfeld jokes were once exchanged at the water cooler...
...because there's a heady smell of money in the air. More than 50 sites patterned after TV networks are jostling for eyeballs--from Shockwave.com which has a deal with Matt Stone and Trey Parker to show South Park episodes, to the all-animated Icebox.com which has signed ex-Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, to the girl-friendly Voxxy, which has hired Jennifer Aniston to produce a weekly series. All of them are lousy with money. "This is going to be Hollywood's Vietnam. There's going to be a lot of money spent and a lot of blood lost...
Fact: no one will enjoy our entertainment. "Seinfeld" will resonate with future generations about as much as "The Honeymooners" hits home with us. "The Simpsons" will be as cutting as "The Howdy Doody Show." Stephen King and Anne Rice will bore those who find them at second-hand sales. John Grisham and Danielle Steel will be unknown and unread. Britney Spears will be facing menopause, Ricky Martin will be balding, Julia Roberts will be collecting social security and Jack Nicholson will be dead...
...introspective rather than aimed outward at the larger society; they focus on relationships over radicalism, the personal over the political. (Even The West Wing takes pains not to alienate mass audiences.) Controversies over TV's best shows are rare (e.g., Italian Americans' plaints against The Sopranos) and inadvertent (Seinfeld's desecrating a Puerto Rican flag...
...galas, is "the outpouring of devotion to an American sitcom star and the very European stuff going on in the street--the contortionists, the guys making human pyramids or balancing 300 tin cans on a beach ball." Among the festival's most famous alumni are Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Chris Rock, Jay Leno and Janeane Garofalo. --By Valerie Marchant...