Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure I am. But that's not what I'm trying to do. My job is to say, 'Is there a local voice? Can I be of service? Can I get you?' " He refuses to be more specific concerning how he plans to go about getting you--as a viewer, he means--but he will speak to where he sees his opening: "Local broadcasters all look exactly the same. Local newscasts are terrible. Except for weather and sports, they're uninformative. They should just have one master shot of police and ambulances and yellow police tape because that...
...delaying the start of the Tonight Show, she sent the studio audience home and forced the network to air a rerun. But the movie's portrayal of her power-mad bitchiness, even to Leno ("Stand up straight, for chrisakes; you're the host of the Tonight Show!"), leaves the viewer wondering why Leno was loyal to her for so long. Similarly, the NBC executives are too wimpy and stupid to be believed. In one scene, Leno eavesdrops on a speakerphone conversation between network executives discussing his fate. Later he phones program chief Warren Littlefield (Bob Balaban) to reveal what...
...plays the part in all Miller's intended misogyny, unaware of any alternative interpretation for a complex character who keeps her family together in the most harrowing of times. Her affectedly frail voice and inability to complete a scene without crying are a true source of anguish to the viewer...
...heels and sparkling body paint. This kind of spectacle could just as easily turn up on European TV, where nudity, sex and tastelessness are also unavoidable. Consider The Word, a lewd late-night variety show that aired on Britain's Channel 4 for five years and once depicted a viewer eating other peoples' scabs. (Don't tell Ricki Lake...
Populating this world are memorable characters, played by an excellent cast. Robert De Niro's Travis by turns charms, mesmerizes and shocks the viewer. His performance includes the now-famous monologue to the camera ("Are you talkin' to me?"), said to have been improvised. A young Jodie Foster contributes a jarring, Academy Award-winning performance as a young prostitute: one moment she is undoing a belt buckle in businesslike manner, at another she is giggly and talkative while eating a piece of bread slathered in sweetness. Harvey Keitel is the epitome of the slimy pimp--he claimed to have rehearsed...