CINEMA: Made-From-Tv Movies
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Those mediocre programs taught a generation how to look at moving pictures and how to avoid social reality. The new big-screen sitcoms simply recognize TV's triumph of the banal. A few good movies (The Fugitive, The Addams Family, Wayne's World) may emerge from Naked Trend 4. But the lemming rush to televidiocy reveals a movie industry close to creative exhaustion.
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