Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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There are some people for whom it will always be too soon, but that doesn't mean we have to reduce ourselves to silence.
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So when we're watching The Sopranos in reruns ten years from now, on a big-screen, it will still look good.
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The music is secondary. The real pull is watching people grab for the brass ring. They're climbing the ladder. This is the great American story.
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New Year's Day was the perfect time for football because you could roll out of bed and you could start watching football, even before you manage to mix your aspirin and water. The second (of January) is just not the same. Some people are going to have to get up. The dynamic gets broken. The whole calculus changes.
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How television and the culture are absorbing Katrina is certainly different than how they absorbed Sept. 11. Four years ago, all culture was put on pause. But people have continued to watch comedies and dramas and reality shows throughout, even when things were at their grimmest.
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Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else.
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Elvis Presley Ate Here' is the cultural equivalent of 'George Washington Slept Here', ... Every time a place makes a claim that Elvis ate there, it becomes a memorial to his memory, to his life and to his legend.
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Then, all of a sudden, it was big money. It went from small stakes to huge stakes, but at the same time, it was still very challenging.
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He still has some of the same mystique, but now the mystery has flopped from an asset to a liability. 'Who is the real Michael Jackson?' is not a question people want to ask anymore, when you're accused of something like this.
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rough contrivance to lift from the social conscience a burden that should not be either lifted or lightened in any way.
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I must admit, I am little giddy right now.
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It becomes just another media in which these celebrities work.
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(His videos were) adding a new dimension, ... I mean, Michael Jackson was a good musician, but I don't think the music would have been what it was without the moonwalk, without that extraordinary choreography that he splashed onto the screen.
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It's so dense. There are so many mysteries going on. It's the perfect show for internet speculating.