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...earnest consistency of Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro, and director Penny Marshall make it a triple shame that we can't seem to stay awake...
Three qualities elevate the book to the memorable. First, Katz knows TV, not just the details that lend verisimilitude but the mind-set and values. Any seasoned journalist is likely to identify with some incident and feel a twinge of shame. Second, rather than fulminate against barbarian interlopers, Katz is candid about the waste, carelessness and openly tolerated thievery that made their raids possible. The TV business, he says, was not businesslike. Third, Katz does not exploit the melodrama of the takeover. He largely ignores the boardroom fighting and has the actual bloodless coup take place off-page. His real...
Overall the show lacks cohesiveness. Nothing unites the pieces besides the common gender and sexual orientation of the artists. And the difficulties incurred by the mode of presentation--the jarring switch from one set of slides to another--heighten this disjunctive impression. It is a shame that these compelling pieces must be viewed through the lens and with the timing of a slide projector...
That we cannot imagine George Bush (or any member of Congress) saying that today, even with the nation at war, is our country's greatest shame...
Each side had its own style of working the theme. Allied POWs were paraded in front of Iraqi television cameras. The men, bruised, dazed, possibly drugged, performed a charade that was the moral equivalent of the milk factory, yet there were numerous Arabs who said, "This is Bush's shame. His own pilots condemn...