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Commercial breaks offered no relief. Nearly every advertisement was for a 1-900 number featuring a Jenny, Susie or Lisa batting their eyelashes at the viewer. One promised titillating conversations with "Housewives, Secretaries and Co-Eds!" to thrill-seeking phonecallers. There were a couple of ads for the International Hair Club for Men. But I'm sure that men with full heads of hair enjoy sleazy movies and 1-900 numbers...
Director Tim Burton, whose two stars were among the premiere character actors in the last decade, ended up drawing a real psychological drama from what could have been a cliche. By tracing the evolution of a superhero and his superfoe, Burton gave the viewer real insight into the complexities of the comic book legends...
...USED TO BE A BAD WORD. THIS was decades ago, when the creators and consumers of popular culture shared a notion of quality. A good movie possessed wit, style, coherence -- competence. It had a story and stars that persuaded the viewer to get lost in the fiction. Movies did what entertainment was meant to do: suspend disbelief...
...German science is agog with its exciting discovery of "E rays," which are said to come from deep within the earth and cause cancer and which cannot be detected by any known scientific instrument. Fortunately, they can be sensed by a dowser carrying a forked willow stick. The trusting viewer in what was the Soviet Union places a bottle of water atop his TV set every morning so that a faith healer can "charge" the contents with curative power via Channel 6. In Finland and Sweden the private, expensive and government- accredited Rudolf Steiner schools teach children to cast horoscopes...
...computer key. "3-D is an old technique," explains Coates, "and computer graphics is a new one. There were no rules for mixing them. We made them up as we went along." The result is a blend of film, computer projections and reality -- whatever that is -- that has the viewer wondering, Is it live, or is it Macintosh...