Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another part of the gamble is scheduling Wild Palms to air in the middle of the high-pressure May sweeps. The network is hoping that the series, like Twin Peaks, will be unusual enough to attract an audience that rarely watches network TV, but not too weird to turn off the Home Improvement crowd. Whatever happens, ABC programmers claim they have learned one lesson from their last experiment in prime-time surrealism: unlike Twin Peaks, Wild Palms will not drag on indefinitely. The mini-series has a fixed ending (unfortunately, a rather lame one), and there are no plans...
...helps even shows which are going up in weird places on campus that aren't really theaters; he helps in pre-production, organization, last-minute things, light fixtures," she says...
...having liked the movie or to having studied it during the years of revision. Prince dismisses it as "a glamorous trick." The style he sought, along with Kander, Ebb and librettist Terrence McNally, was the magic realism of Latin American fiction, in which everyday behavior lurches into the weird. If there was a screen influence, Prince says, it was Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, a TV miniseries that hopscotched among layers of reality and expected audiences to get their bearings gradually, by osmosis. Says Prince: "The way the numbers are parsed into Kiss is unique. They are abrupt, fragmented...
...female Inside Edge staff member said being a woman working for a men's magazine was "weird" at first, but that "they've given us a lot of power to tone things down...
...such a thrill," he said. "I got out there and jogged all around and imagined playing there with a full crowd. It was weird. I was just giggling the entire time I was so happy--just like a little kid. I couldn't believe I was actually there...