Word: slickness
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...heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract a bigger one-day sports audience. All are events of worldwide interest, steeped in tradition. The Super Bowl spectacle pivots around a grand, but parochial American passion. It was born a mere decade ago, the child of technology, a unique combination of slick and schlock with no history at all save a profound connection to a taproot of the human psyche...
...members for the cover story on Charlie's Angels: Editor Martha Duffy, Critic Richard Schickel, et al. It is a pity the same generosity was not extended to whoever created the series. Starting from the blank page, Ben Roberts and I wrote the script and then produced the "slick pilot," which then became a series...
...director Gibson's credit, the slick production legs only in the unnecessarily long second act. Gibson can perhaps be criticized for failing to produce conspicuous interaction between members of the cast, most of whom seem to be aware of other actors only when they must speak to them. Again, this is partially a flaw in the play itself, which shows off individuals and not the company as a whole...
...forged inheritance, not even a socio-economic destiny can satisfy this man's soul. Only his crowbar. The overall conception may strike us as weak, but we can now account for Malle's depressed editing. So if you feel that Malle as director has ripped you off from the slick adventure story you were expecting, at least you'll know the existential reason...
...pilot from then ABC Vice President Michael Eisner. Still, the notion languished on the back burner until Fred Silverman (see box page 70) took over last year as president of ABC Entertainment. He was immediately attracted to the show and ordered Spelling-Goldberg to get cracking. They made a slick pilot, which won a place for the series on the fall schedule...