Word: tv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Snap, crackle, pop? Callow youths who hear that riff might mistake it for the opening of a new rap song, but anyone old enough to have endured the 1950s and '60s knows the refrain as the opening of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old standby is getting play once again as part of a popular new record called Tee Vee Toons: The Commercials. The album features such Madison Avenue jingles as Brylcreem's A Little Dab'll Do Ya, Alka- Seltzer's Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz and Noxzema's The Stripper (Take...
...Venice, giving the play the largest advance sale of any nonmusical show in West End history. For once the actual event is no disappointment, although in director Peter Hall's shrewd reading the play is more comedy than tragedy and focuses more on Portia (played by Geraldine James of TV's The Jewel in the Crown) than on Shylock...
...They are, in their own way, as much a part of TV history as Lucy, Uncle Miltie and the Great One. Their names were Pinky, Blinky, Inky and Clyde, but most people knew them simply as the squat, ghostlike monsters who scurried around a maze trying to gobble you up in the most popular video game of all time, Pac-Man. Remember the tinkly computer tune that signaled the start of each game? The "power pellets" that changed the monsters' color to blue and turned the chasers into the chased? The animated "half-time show" that appeared after two mazes...
...executive director of the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities. While most Americans still feel confident about the economy and business in general, consumers have become increasingly aggressive in taking corporations to task for misbehavior and irresponsibility. Among the concerns: investment in South Africa, environmental pollution, hazardous products, offensive TV programming and testing on animals. Today's campaigners for corporate accountability, unlike those in past consumer movements, are drawn from the mainstream and include activists who range from homemakers to corporate investors...
...comic book fans have long harbored a grudge against the TV portrayal of Batman. This isn't right, they said. Batman ought to be a Serious Psychological Drama...