“As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.” StarsObjectsApproachFamiliarDimensionsFourthClicks Author:James Wolcott
“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.” LooksCharacterRunningFilmQualityComedyTeamHarderFamiliarFeaturesLengthGapsFactoriesMachinerySitcomDefective Author:James Wolcott
“In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.” FeelsLooksRealityForceEasyTvsFoolJudgmentStrangerFamiliarSuperiorsFedsChickensPermitViewersOne DirectionReality TvPassivityEditedPamperedPassivity Is Author:James Wolcott
