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...second thought, I'm not surprised. This predictable complaint surfaces whenever men cease to be the center of attention. When will people realize that shifting the spotlight to women is a necessary remedy for egregious neglect over hundreds of years, and not a plot to marginalize men in return...
Indeed, director Joseph Ruben conspires to keep the spotlight on the young prodigies and off everyone else. The adults (Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Kelly, and Jaqueline Brooks) are competent and unobtrusive. The filming emphasizes realism and immediacy instead of effects; this reviewer didn't even notice a soundtrack. The direction was notable for its minimalism...
...less graphic and less prevalent than in dozens of older TV shoot-'em-ups, from Gunsmoke to Miami Vice. The show's chief problem is unlucky timing: as one of the few new shows this fall to portray any serious violence, it has been put in the spotlight by antiviolence crusaders desperately looking for targets. NYPD Blue is also, by the way, a crackling good TV show, probably Bochco's best since Hill Street Blues. Better than Hill Street in some ways: sleeker, more focused, less distracted by those often annoying comic interludes. Instead of a Hill Street-style ensemble...
Mother Nature gave TV meteorologists their 15 minutes in the national spotlight. A heat wave battered the East Coast, while floods in the Midwest produced, ironically, water shortages. The flooding allowed politicians from the lowa state house to the White House to do what they do best: express sympathy and hand out money...
...curtain is going up for the last time in Dillon Field House. And for this, the last performance, the spotlight returns, the gate receipts increase and critics flock to praise the show they damned for so long...