"You don't hear TV cops griping because they……" — Tom Shales
"You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime."
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23 Quotes by Tom Shales
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a…
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can…
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families…
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick…
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses…
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun…
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Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line…
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