Word: sids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anglican priest, the Rev. Sid Luckett, led the rest of the crowd to the police vehicles and they sat on the sidewalk...
...next ("Dragnet was the first hit police show. It has been followed by a succession of cop shows."), with little insight into how the medium got from there to here. The series focuses, wisely, on programming rather than the business of TV; still, somewhere amid the clips of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason and Playhouse 90, one longs for at least some discussion of how networks came into being. Nor is there much of a global perspective: despite a few glimpses of TV in Britain, Japan and elsewhere, the program offers no explanation of why TV developed so differently...
Thank You: Special thanks to Sports Information Director Frank Cicero and Assistant SID Jeff Bradley for their help throughout the year...
LOWENSTEIN lifts a good deal of his material from Alex Cox's classic depiction of punk life, Sid and Nancy, including a fantasy sequence that Cox could sue him for if scenes were copyrighted. He needn't bother, however, since Lowenstein never even approaches the level of intelligence and cohesiveness that made Cox's movie so compelling. Lowenstein doesn't understand that the way to portray chaos and boredom is not to be chaotic and boring...
...opened my mouth but I couldn't get out the words, Can I interview [for the assistant SID job],'" Bradley recounts, "before Ed offered me the job. It was a dream come true...