Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both programs are starting with healthy numbers. Sajak is being picked up by 90% of CBS affiliates, more than carry the network's current offerings. Hall's show also will reach 90% of the country with its lineup of independent stations. But producers and network executives are busily trying to lower expectations. "It's foolish to think you can knock off an institution like Carson just because you arrive on the scene," says CBS vice president Michael Brockman. Asserts Lucie Salhany, president of Paramount's domestic television division: "We're not out to get anybody. There's room...
...These are not bad men -- they're baaaad guys. And the blacks are better than good; their faces reveal them as martyrs, sanctified by centuries of suffering. Caricature is a fine dramatic tradition, when you have two hours to tell a story and a million things to say and show...
What Parker hopes to show moviegoers of 1989 is a fable about 1964 -- perhaps the very last historical moment when most American whites could see Southern blacks purely as righteous rebels for a just cause. The picture may hold even truer today. Reactionary whites may not want blacks in their schools, neighborhoods or jobs, but they can feel empathy for the film's heroic Negroes. For Parker, that Mississippi summer represented "the beginning of political consciousness, not just in the South or in America, but in the whole world." Can Mississippi Burning help raise that consciousness once again, even...
...around the country, food and drink go unsold because fans refuse to leave their seats for fear of missing a spectacular Jordan move to tell their grandchildren about. Bulls assistant coach Phil Jackson admits that the Jordan Freeze affects seasoned veterans. "Even I get caught up in Michael's show," he says. "I try not to, but sometimes I just sit back and enjoy...
...those shows would seem a godsend to the Wan White Way of the '80s. With three striking exceptions -- Dreamgirls, Big River and Into the Woods -- pretty much every noteworthy musical of the decade has been a revival, a recycling of old songs, an import (generally from Britain) or a critical smash but commercial also-ran. The current season, which by Broadway's calendar began in May, is more miserable than most. Its first American musical, Carrie, actually a slightly postponed holdover from last season, closed within five performances at a record loss of $7 million. The sole entry since, Legs...