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...light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...
...after day, Monday through Sunday." When she needed to go to the bathroom, Les, by now in his late 70s, would have to lift her from wheelchair to toilet and pull down her slacks. Once while Les was out, the radio lost its signal: Sue listened to static for hours, unable to get to the dial...
...people who are going to read this magazine are the same [teenagers] who play around with their cable TV box trying to tune in static on the Playboy channel," said Adam D. Taxin...
Director Robert Hossein, who conceived the show, also mounted the first version of the musical hit Les Miserables, though in static, arena-style tableaux rather than the Broadway staging. Radio City executive producer Scott Sanders likens Jesus to Les Miz. Says he: "These shows offer pain, despair and suffering followed by hope, ending in a joyous feeling of power and faith. That is quality family entertainment." With both Jesus and Les Miz, Hossein has not so much told a story as relied on audiences to know it already. Jesus neither starts with the birth of its hero nor ends with...
WITH TWO STROKES OF THE PEN, THE FEDERAL COMmunications Commission created a lot of static in the entertainment business. By adopting the most sweeping price controls in a decade, the agency angered the cable-television industry, ordering cable systems throughout the country to cut rates for most services up to 10%, a move that could save subscribers an aggregate $1.2 billion. Rates will now be regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed...