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1998 Stories by Robert Lloyd

• Family Patter

  published December 31, 1998

  Photo by Alice S. HallFamily is television's great subject. This is only fitting, given the shrinelike centrality of the TV set in the domestic... More >>

• Love, Death and Déjà vu

  published December 24, 1998

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• Private Lies, Public Lives

  published December 3, 1998

  Photo by Lorey SebastianThe words true story establish immediate credit in the human mind. Why this should be so when all the best stories... More >>

• Female Trouble

  published November 19, 1998

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• On TV

  published November 5, 1998

  "Inside the creative universe known as dramatic television," a narrator intones in a voice as deadly as if his subject were chemical terrorism and... More >>

• Stranger, in a Strange Land

  published October 22, 1998

  Eat the Document, an extremely rare public view at the Museum of Television and Radio through November 13, is Bob Dylan's whimsically difficult,... More >>

• Forward Into the Past

  published October 8, 1998

  Life magazine, the official gazette of our age, has just published, in a handsome, perfect-bound special edition you're sure to treasure for weeks... More >>

• Real Country

  published September 24, 1998

  The Farmer's Wife, which opens this season's Frontline on PBS, is a thousand-acre documentary that neither details nor examines but rather... More >>

• Memorial

  published September 10, 1998

  Citizens of L.A.! Weekly readers! You who rail at traffic, who curse the barista too slow with the morning latte, who claim to have no spare... More >>

• Heavy Bad Mojo

  published July 16, 1998

  EVERYTHING THAT RISES TNT Premieres Sunday, July 12, 8 p.m. MY OWN COUNTRY Showtime Premieres Sunday, July 12, 9... More >>

• Rockin’ at the Studentersamfundet

  published April 2, 1998

  I’m touring Europe in a pop band. We’ve come to the thousand-year-old city of Trondheim, about 200 miles below the Arctic Circle, to play t... More >>

• Final Credits

  published March 26, 1998

  EVIDENCE OF BLOODThe Movie ChannelSaturday, March 28,9 p.m.HOLLYWOODISM:Jews, Movies and the American DreamA&ESunday, March 22, 10 p.m. ... More >>

• Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

  published March 19, 1998

  USA Network Part 1: Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m. Part 2: Monday, March 16, 8 p.m. THE McCOURTS OF LIMERICK Cinemax Tuesday, March 17, 8... More >>

• Portrait of the Critic As a Cool Guy

  published March 12, 1998

  Pity the critic, if you will, if you can, who must spend his days thinking long and hard on other people's real work. Unlike the artist's... More >>

• Survival, Revivalle

  published February 26, 1998

  ABC's Prey is a "Darwinian" thriller about a recently evolved race of not-quite-humans who, because "two species cannot occupy the same... More >>

• Globular

  published February 12, 1998

  There are undoubtedly, even in this tinselly town, people who live unimpressed by celebrity. But not so many that it, you know, matters.... More >>