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...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...
Right now the late-night game is in its dog days, or stupid-pet season. The play-offs begin Aug. 30, when Letterman debuts on CBS opposite Leno, with the wild-card teams headed by O'Brien and Chase joining the fray in September. Addressing a network press conference last week, CBS's star free agent had fun from the moment he came onstage and fiddled with a defective microphone ("Oh, it's the GE equipment"). Anything different on the new show? "Well, I'm going to start using a rinse on my hair." Won't his huge salary alienate...
...character," says Merrill Markoe, Late Night's first head writer. "It was just Calvert being unable to read cue cards particularly well. It was a trait with which he was so consistent that we could call it a character. That was the character: there was no character." As for Stupid Pet Tricks, Markoe dreamed it up for Letterman's NBC 1980 morning show -- which he, not NBC, owns -- and reused it on Late Night. "I came up with a really good sequel to Stupid Pet Tricks," adds Markoe. "If anyone wants to contact me, for $3.5 million I can tell...