For Perhaps Most Americans, Tv Is An

Movies Have Been Doing So Much Of The Same Thing - In Slightly Different Ways - For So Long That Few Of The Possibilities Of This Great Hybrid Art Have Yet Been Explored.

One Of The Surest Signs Of The Philistine Is His Reverence For The Superior Tastes Of Those Who Put Him Down.

Television As We Have It Isn't An Art Form - It's A Piece Of Furniture That Is Good For A Few Things.

In The Sixties, The Recycling Of Pop Culture Turning It Into Pop Art And Camp Had Its Own Satirical Zest. Now We're Into A Different Kind Of Recycling. Moviemakers Give Movies Of The Past An Authority That Those Movies Didn't Have; They Inflate Images That May Never Have Compelled Belief, Images That Were No More Than Shorthand Gestures And They Use Them Not As Larger-than-life Jokes But As Altars.

The Problem With A Popular Art Form Is That Those Who Want Something More Are In A Hopeless Minority Compared With The Millions Who Are Always Seeing It For The First Time, Or For The Reassurance And Gratification Of Seeing The Conventions Fulfilled Again.