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say they liked this but didn't like that. I can't tell you how many movies
would have been ruined by preview cards because the natural impulse
of an audience is to want a happy ending, to reach for what's familiar,
not to be challenged. You really have to lead an audience, not follow
them.
New York Times B1 (September 28, 1992).
87 New York Times B1 (February 5, 1992). When the film appeared, the
American had been chastened and civilised by falling in love with his
Japanese coach's daughter. One reviewer observed:
[T]he finished version shows no signs of ever having been a hard-hitting
satire.. . .The ending certainly smacks of compromise, since this is not
a film willing to think seriously about Japanese attitudes toward an
interracial romance. . . .Some of the film's crass American characters.
. .are allowed to become caricatures. And there is a trace of
hostility in the way one of Jack's teammates refers to him as "white
trash." The film also makes room for the occasional lecture, as when
Jack complains about what he calls "the Japanese way—shut up and
take it." In response, he is told, "Sometimes acceptance and cooperation
are strengths also."
New York Timex B6 (October 2, 1992); see also Los Angeles Times F12
(October 2, 1992).
88 New York Times B1 (January 30, 1992), s.2 p.17 (March 15, 1992). An
NC-17 rating may discourage movie chains from showing the film,
media from accepting advertising for it, and video stores from stocking it.
Stephen Chao's meteoric rise to the presidency of Fox Television
Stations was followed by his equally precipitate fall. At a panel on "The
Threat to Democratic Capitalism Posed by Modern Culture" he discussed
the constant pressures on television, illustrating his talk by having a male
model strip before an audience that included NEH chair Lynne Cheney
(and her husband, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney). Rupert Murdoch
fired Chao on the spot, commenting "It was a tragedy to see a great career
self-destruct." Chao explained: "I was questioning the conventions
which govern TV in America, which are confused and hypocritical—such
things as the difference between nakedness and lewdness or the predominance
of violence in fictional programming." Murdoch needed no lessons
in hypocrisy. Chao had played a major role in developing such hits
as "America's Most Wanted," "Cops," and "Studs." The last, Fox's main
money-maker, features three young women in tiny mini-skirts and two
hunks engaging in half an hour of suggestive conversation whose prize is
a "dream date." The programe cost $50,000 a week to produce while
earning Fox $20 million in 1991/92 and an anticipated $60 million in
1992/93. Los Angeles Times D1 (June 22, 1992), A1 (June 23, 1992);
New York Times C6 (June 29, 1992).
89 Bagdikian (1987); Baker (1992). The November Company, a firm of
advertising executives handling the Bush-Quayle campaign, told
networks its decision about where to buy commercial time would be
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