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2000 Stories by Robert Lloyd

• Beyond Good and Evil

  published November 30, 2000

  HERE IS CRAIG MCCRACKEN IN HIS (fairly) new office, full of toys and piñatas and picture books, in a (fairly) new building in the city of Burbank. ... More >>

• Cruise Control

  published November 9, 2000

  TV comedy, if you factor out variety shows (as history already has) and funny home videos, may be divided, broadly speaking, into vehicles (The... More >>

• Good News About the New Season

  published October 26, 2000

  I’d like to say before we start that, in spite of all my professional expectations, the new network season does not suck. It doesn‘t ev... More >>

• Tori! Tori! Tori!

  published October 12, 2000

  The WB‘s Grosse Pointe is a new sitcom from Darren Star that parodies both the substance and production of his own earlier creation Beverl... More >>

• Ode to Plotlessness

  published October 5, 2000

  And here we are again, poised on the brink of a ”new fall season,“ a little delayed by the Olympics but still the traditional beginning of t... More >>

• Survival

  published September 14, 2000

  A friend asked me to tape the final night of Survivor for him because he was going to a ball game and his wife couldn’t work out how to set th... More >>

• B-Pictures

  published August 31, 2000

  Stanley Tucci has turned up suddenly, surprisingly, in the cast of Bull, the first dramatic series from TNT (though it is ultimately a... More >>

• Who Wants To Be a President?

  published August 17, 2000

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• Harvest Time

  published July 27, 2000

  Like a lot of speculative fiction, the TNT made-for-TV movie Race Against Time takes as a given the corporate takeover of the world and the... More >>

• Pretense & Sensibility

  published July 27, 2000

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo Carolyn See writes — in longhand! — lovely books in which terrible things happen to good people, and to bad people, a... More >>

• Desert Island Bisque

  published July 13, 2000

  Can 24 million Survivor fans be wrong? Call me un-American, but apart from a mild antipathy for an obnoxious castaway or two and a... More >>

• American Families

  published June 29, 2000

  One hundred years ago, Kodak introduced the Brownie, selling 250,000 of the cameras in the first year at a dollar a pop and changing the way in... More >>

• Up Close

  published June 15, 2000

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• Dropped Bombs

  published June 1, 2000

  Nuclear holocaust is back on TV, and it‘s about time. We’ve gotten so used to all those bombs sitting around not going off that it‘s tempt... More >>

• What's Welsh for Zen?

  published May 25, 2000

  The first memoir by a member of the Velvet Underground, the cult band that could, John Cale’s perversely entertaining trip through th... More >>

• Too Good and Weird

  published May 18, 2000

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• Heart Attack

  published May 4, 2000

  I ran across Blind Date by accident, as upon an accident, channel surfing in a New Orleans hotel room, and though I could have been out... More >>

• Truth and Beauty

  published April 20, 2000

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• God, the Devil and NBC

  published April 6, 2000

  A moment of silence, of sadness, of fist shaking, over NBC’s cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, as much a candidate as any for the bes... More >>

• Street Crime

  published March 23, 2000

  In our current perceptual grammar, video looks like life, while film, which used to be used to bring the far corners of the real world close,... More >>

• Up Your Culture

  published March 9, 2000

  Illustration by Geoffrey Grahn The first and perhaps most important thing that needs to be said of Nobrow, John Seabrook’s boo... More >>

• Babes in Armor

  published March 9, 2000

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• Kids in the Hall

  published February 24, 2000

  We never really get over childhood, which is what keeps psychoanalysts in business, and perhaps helps explain why Malcolm in the Middle, a new... More >>

• Daily Variety

  published February 10, 2000

  As the Film Society of Lincoln Center mounts a complete retrospective of his work, Frederick Wiseman delivers his 30th documentary to PBS, his... More >>

• High Culture, Low-Def

  published January 27, 2000

  HAVING BEEN RAISED IN THE CHURCH OF SELF-EXpression, I am made immoderately cheerful by the arrival of EGG the arts show, a 12-episode... More >>