Word: tanners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RACHEL RIVER (PBS, June 21, 9 p.m. on most stations). Pamela Reed (Tanner '88) and Craig T. Nelson (Call to Glory) are featured in this brooding American Playhouse drama about small-town Minnesota...
...TANNER '88 (HBO) While voters slogged through an uninspired presidential campaign, Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau invented their own candidate (Michael Murphy) and fashioned, in this eleven-part series, the year's definitive satire of media politics...
RAGGED BUT RIGHT: GREAT COUNTRY STRING BANDS OF THE 1930s (RCA). Before the rhinestones, country music sounded like this: all heart and no slickum. Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers; Wade Mainer . . . the sounds are as good as the names...
...TANNER '88: THE REALITY CHECK (HBO, debuting Aug. 22, 10 p.m. EDT). Dukakis has won the nomination, but Tanner, TV's alternative candidate, is pondering a third-party run in the final cable installment of Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau's ingenious political satire...
...Tanner '88 has had fun trying to confuse the line between the real and the bogus: Tanner has crossed paths on the campaign trail, for instance, with | legitimate candidates like Bob Dole and Pat Robertson. But Altman and Trudeau have gone beyond such gimmicks and turned their parallel world into a sly fun- house mirror. The show skewers a host of familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate...