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...kitchens will be marvels where a lobster souffle can be created along with hamburgers. Movies can be shown, TV tuned in, stereo piped through the entire 187-ft. cabin, phone calls made to Katmandu. The President will be able to scan his welcoming crowds on the TV screen as the plane taxis up. He will exit on special stairs from the forward door, an elegant pulpit high above his waiting subjects...
...Ferris Buelleresque Chicago locations is certainly sufficient to safeguard the film's mainstream appeal. But if the only image that remains after the film is that of Moore and Lowe doing the deed everywhere from in the shower to on the carpet in front of Danny's double headphone stereo system to in a bean bag chair, you missed Mamet's point about relationships...
While his stereo snores, his mannequin tosses and turns under his covers, and his intercom tells visitors he is too weak to answer the door, Ferris is busy living it up in Chicago with his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara), the latter of whom he has deviously rescued from school...
Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...
...converts to such surround-sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...