Word: sketches
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That alpine height is usually the starting place in any attempt to sketch Crichton, for it is what flattens everyone upon first meeting him. "I found myself climbing up on things without even knowing it just to talk to him," says Kathleen Kennedy, who produced the movie Jurassic Park, as well as this summer's Congo, based on a 1980 Crichton novel. "It's a bit disconcerting when you realize you're tilting your head completely back just to get a glimpse...
...that, however, Michaels will need a sharper editing eye than some feel he demonstrated last season. "I saw pretty good sketches die on the way to the screen," notes Michael McKean, another departing cast member. "If a sketch asked a lot of an audience, they didn't want it. By and large, you had one smart piece within the 90 minutes." Michaels will need to come up with a lot more of those next season if Saturday Night is to live again...
Adding to SNL's challenge this fall is the presence, for the first time, of serious network competition. On Oct. 14th, Fox will launch Mad-TV, a sketch-comedy show based on Mad magazine. The one-hour program, which will air at 11 p.m. Eastern time (half an hour earlier than SNL) looks unpromising--crass, pointless skits, like one in which homeless people forage for breakfast food in Dumpsters, seem to be favored here too--but if it fails, Fox already has a potential backup in the works: a sketch-comedy hour being developed by Roseanne...
...left for shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over TV now," says former staff writer Robert Smigel, one of four people who rejected offers from Michaels to take over as head writer. Smigel will instead be executive producer of a new sketch-comedy show Dana Carvey is doing...
...small but growing group of scholars--evolutionary psychologists--are trying to do better. With a method less fanciful than Freud's, they're beginning to sketch the contours of the human mind as designed by natural selection. Some of them even anticipate the coming of a field called "mismatch theory," which would study maladies resulting from contrasts between the modern environment and the "ancestral environment," the one we were designed for. There's no shortage of such maladies to study. Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common...