think, was kind of smashed through a lot of the characters on television. look, if you re a successful saleswoman in this city, you have two choices. you can bang your head against a wall and try and find a relationship, or you can say screw it and just go out and have sex like a man. sex and the city was a huge success right from the start. it was very funny, very clever, and very candid. are relationships the religion of the 90s? these are women who are making a good living, they were independent, they were single, and they were sort of feeling their power. i said all of them. bad waiter, bad waiter. what do you tip for that? i wanted these women to be objectifying men in the way men had always objectified women. all right. my turn. sorry, i have to go back to work. you didn t used to be able to discuss sex as sex. network shows, there never were people talking about orgasms or
and they find a homeless child molester who murdered the kid and sipowitz to get the confession has to be like very sensitive and very good cop. i know this has got to be tearing you up inside. but you are going to feel a lot better if you tell the truth. you can sort of see on dennis s face, this is killing him to not, like, destroy this guy, right now. and finally, he he gets the confession. he gets a signed statement. he walks out of the room. he goes to another interrogation room. and he breaks the door in two with his fists. and i am choking up, talking about it right now because, like, that s how great a moment of tv that it is. 20 years from now, the best-tv dramas. what do they look like? i don t know. will they be bolder than what we see today? assuredly, they will be. the 90s gave us several shows that didn t really explode in the ratings but were very influential to other people
iv? actually, no. er is a hospital show but it s really an action movie. yellow, urgent. red, critical. got it? zbh got it it. a gurney comes in. people are shouting instructions. doing cpr. and suddenly, they are racing off to the surgical suite. they are tossing around medical jargon. they don t stop to explain ha it is. you know, prep for a peritoneal i think i know what that is now but only because i watched a lot of er over the years. bypass enormous blood directory. that would be the fastest way. what do you think? there was so much information coming at you that, i think, it made the experience feel as if you had to watch it in the same way that you would watch a film. that you had to stay involved in it, the whole time. come on. hold on, buddy. hold on. there was a lot of research that said that people didn t want to watch anybody have anything, other than a happy
a story of basic instincts, anger, and fear. i was scared and i just wanted him to leave me alone. and so, broadcast journalism loses its purity. and it becomes much more shoddy, sensationalistic. and then, it all comes together with oj simpson. in los angeles, the los angeles county district attorney has just filed murder charges against on thal james oj simpson. i am going to have to interrupt this call. i understand we are going to go to a live picture in los angeles. police believe that that oj simpson is in that car. the oj-simpson story starts with the chase. and then, goes on to his arrest. and then, culminates with the trial which goes on and on and on. and is televised, day after day after day. this is going to be a long trial. there is a lot of evidence to come in. the oj simpson case was such a national phenomenon that, those of us who were covering
in the 90s, gay characters were always secondary or third. there was never a gay character that was the lead of a show. so you want to go look at apartments tomorrow? great idea! ellen degeneres, the comedian, was about to come out. as a lesbian. look, on the cover of time. and she does it on time magazine. yep, i m gay. but they decide that the character ellen plays on tv will also come out. it is just reprehensible that abc, now owned by disney of all companies, is going to feature ellen as coming out of the closet. it won t be long before god knows what, you know. bestiality, incest, who knows. we were getting bomb threats. disney was really getting a lot of flack for even thinking about having a coming-out episode with ellen.