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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.
- Tom Shales
#Age
#Credit
#Culture
#Debt
#Long
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
- Tom Shales
#Adult
#Almost
#Kids
#Show
#Talking
You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.
- Tom Shales
#Hero
#Hidden
#Long
#Matter
#Wonder
'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.
- Tom Shales
#Example
#Pure
#Real
#Television
#Time
In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.
- Tom Shales
#City
#Film
#Good
#Nobody
#Sometimes
Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.
- Tom Shales
#Ability
#Amazing
#Details
#Humor
#Life
You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.
- Tom Shales
#Getting Older
#Know
#Live
#Never
#Night
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
- Tom Shales
#Conservative
#Law
#Liberalism
#Place
Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.
- Tom Shales
#Big
#Enough
#Night
#Own
#Real
Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.
- Tom Shales
#Civility
#Got
#Humane
#King
#Show
'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.
- Tom Shales
#Age
#Golden
#Leave
#Television
#Until
Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.
- Tom Shales
#Death
#Music
#Red
#Time
#Variety
In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.
- Tom Shales
#American
#Best
#Comedy
#Delight
#Through
Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.
- Tom Shales
#Down
#Enjoy
#Losing
#Win
#World
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
- Tom Shales
#Attention Span
#Attention
#Duck
#Fellow
'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.
- Tom Shales
#Clock
#Game
#Hat
#Wife
#Win
Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
- Tom Shales
#Best
#Birthday
#Family
#Life
#Portrait
#Thinking
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