Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretense. They all seem to proceed from the belief that a television series should not aspire to any greater intellectual or emotional depth than the comic books that seem to have inspired them. The dialogue is apparently borrowed from old Batman balloons. Brightly lit and crudely shot, the visual style indeed reminds one of comic art at its least sophisticated level...
There is no better example of ABC's business style than Charlie's Angels, which now sells ad spots for $100,000 a minute. The idea for the show germinated a couple of years ago in the offices of Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, producers who specialize in action-adventure shows (The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch) for ABC. "Our motivation," says Goldberg, "was the fact that action-adventure shows were dominated by inner-city realism starring such gruff types as Colombo and Baretta. We just thought, 'Why not inject some really stunning beauty into the genre...
...they go into the streets for location work. The mail runs to 18,000 pieces a week-even more after something as raunchy as the prison show. The fact is that, for the moment anyway, ABC has stumbled onto something big. Charlie's Angels might be called family-style porn, a mild erotic fantasy that appeals about equally to men and women. The show has been launched at a moment when there is franker discussion of sexual needs and wishes and when women, in particular, are beginning to reveal their sexual fantasies. Though hardly a credible treatment of these...
Director-Writer Alan Rudolph, 32, is a protégé of Robert Altman. Rudolph worked on Nashville and wrote the screenplay of Buffalo Bill and the Indians; Altman is the producer of Welcome to L.A. There are pronounced traces of Altman's style here-mainly in the kaleidoscopic plot construction that is reminiscent of Nashville. Rudolph has his own voice, however, and he has found it early. He falters at times, lets his ambition slide into pretension, pampers a line of dialogue until it just arches its back and slinks away. Allowances should be made for first features...
...major part of the burden of establishing a Harvard style of team play will fall on the ample shoulders of the 6-ft., 6-in. Hooft. Last year's leading hero of the freshman squad, the forward from Winnemucca, Nevada must change his style of play this year to compensate for the Crimson's lack of height...