Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does Letterman seem troubled about the much publicized dispute with NBC over the rights to his signature bits, such as the Top 10 list and Stupid Pet Tricks. The Letterman camp has conceded some points; it has changed the title of the show from Late Night to Late Show with David Letterman, for instance. But the Top 10 list and other familiar bits will be back, Letterman promises, though possibly under different names. "I would never put CBS in a position where they would have to legally defend me," he says...
...place of artistic brutality are meatheaded stunts. The most numbingly stupid one is a case of "motorcycle surfing." The advantage of standing on the seat of a moving motorcycle while being shot at is obvious only to the most dedicated of movie heroes. Unlearned audience members simply squint in confusion...
...Senator Simon, Mr. Turner and their boosters to claim that TV causes random violence, they must plumb the depths of cynicism. Young people do perceive "the violent message" of television, but they are too stupid to absorb anything else, even if it is just as obvious. This comes from men of a generation, which relies on its children to operate its VCRs...
This Robin of Loxley gets his castle towed away and thus must seek vengeance against Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees) and Prince John (Richard Lewis). In most movies, this would serve as a stupid interlude; for Mel Brooks, it is a crucial plot development...
SHOW BUSINESS: Stupid-Network Tricks...