Haggard In Hollywood

Written by Catherine Seipp on August 18, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

“Oh, come on,” I said. “Okay,” she snapped, “name one you’ve seen lately.” She had me there; I thought for several moments and couldn’t. She smiled grimly and said: “Small film parts they used to call someone like me for, now they call Frances Fisher. Oscar-winning actresses are duking it out with each other for
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Color Television

Written by Catherine Seipp on August 11, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Why are there no black stars in the big four networks’ new fall lineup? Because blacks watch a lot of tv, sometimes twice as much as the average boob-tube-addicted white viewer. That advertisers therefore don’t court them seems counterintuitive, but it makes sense when you understand the weird new world of “narrowcasting.” Let’s look at the typical heavy tv consumer,
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