Word: showings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHRB officials said yesterday that they have decided to take the weekly rap music show "Streetbeat" off the air because the show represents a security problem for the station and its members...
...WHRB station manager said he made the decision after one attack on the station and threats that if the show was aired, the WHRB offices would be ransacked again...
Peters said that after the attack, a man identifying himself as a member of the "Cambridge Radical Group"--a name which Peters said he felt was made-up--called the station complaining that the "Streetbeat" deejay had "insulted" his friends, the show's guest rappers...
...picked Chicken Soup as the season's big hit. But Mason had a troubled autumn. He got bad reviews, both for his acting and for making racially inflammatory remarks during the New York City mayoral race. More dismaying to ABC, Chicken Soup -- though the highest-rated of any new show this fall -- regularly lost nearly one-third of the huge Roseanne audience. Last week the network abruptly canceled its can't-miss hit. Moral: when it comes to TV programming, nobody knows borscht...
...play was a swell show; it had something for everyone. The main thing preventing it from being an equally swell movie is the fact that it is a movie. A film must offer us something a little more spectacular than half a dozen white chicks sitting around talking. Accordingly, Harling's adaptation hustles them out of the beauty shop and into the life of the town. Suddenly the people they talked about so amusingly behind their backs must be met face- to-face. The conflicts and confusions that sounded so hilarious in the recounting are spread out realistically. And reality...