ENTERTAINING RELIGION On the Sunday nearest a recent Memorial Day, my wife and I attended a well-known church in Southern California. The church is noted for its pizzazz, but we hardly were prepared for everything that happened. For starters, a Native American, dressed in a buckskin jacket, sang “God Bless America,” and the minister interviewed …
TELEVISION VIEWS All television is children’s television. — Richard P. Adler The one function that television news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. — David Brinkley Art is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment …
TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you would not have in your home. — Dave Frost From the May 2, 1994 issue of the Chicago Tribune
CHEAP IS EXNSIVE It takes a lot of money to make me look this cheap — Dolly Parton
NO TIME FOR TELEVISION In 1939, when a prototype television was demonstrated at the World’s Fair, a reviewer from The New York Times was not impressed. “The problem with television,” he wrote, “is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued to a screen. The average American family doesn’t have time for it.” From …
PAT-A- CAKE UPDATED Make a tape, Make a tape, Video man. Get it all ready as fast as you can. Film it and tape it and mark it with “G” And put it in the video store for Daddy and me! By Joseph Pride, age 9, Missouri, from Help for Growing Families, Fenton, Missouri
TASTELESS TELEVISION We’re doing our share for tastelessness. By United States House Representative Newt Gingrich, on his family’s participation as a Nielsen household
WITHOUT MORAL PASSION Art is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. — Rita Mae Brown