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...Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis' cruddy doge's palace, in which these hilariously sloppy eaters dine on live Podlings and scheme for ascendancy; Jen's dream sequence, briefly sparkling with hope and memory-all are set pieces that justify the expense and the viewer's attention...
...comedy, they allowed the tone of their script to become jarringly uneven. Barnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy, as Paula's parents, are repositories of senile pathos; Audra Lindley, as Richard's mom, is a shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood on his own. One can still savor the moments when Reynolds and Hawn display their easy strengths: Burt's shrugged-off sexiness and decent vulnerability, Goldie's ditsy-pixie charm and daredevil comic timing. The two should remain among the audience's best friends, even if this...
...other words, the broadcasters will not sell more ads than they think the viewer will put up with. Sports programming, for example, is already peppered with ads, and late-night audiences are bombarded with up to 16 min. of ads an hour. Even in prime time, the networks have found ways to stretch their self-imposed limits: an extra ad is run along with the 50-sec. "news briefs" injected into the regular programming. In the past few months all three networks have started selling an extra 30 sec. of advertising, overall, in the three-hour prime-time stretch...
...first scene we need underwater photography. Very expensive, but we're going first-class. The opening shot is a stunner. The viewer doesn't know it yet, but he's looking up from inside the drain of a bathroom sink. Very spooky. There's a lot of ice floating around, seen from below, and in the middle of the Cinemascope screen something that looks, at extreme close range, as if it might be the hull of the Titanic. Bubbles are coming out of this ambiguous mass, "BLUB-BLUB-BLUB-BLUB!" Tension grips the audience...
...kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T), while the viewer, dazed by unwelcome memories of Trouble with Father, takes the lumps...