Re: Alsen's royal pain


Subject: Re: Alsen's royal pain
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 22:07:49 EST


At 10:01 PM -0500 on 1/31/2000, Jim wrote:

> Yeah, those are good details and I'm sure they could be multiplied. I don't
> know if I'd make much out of the twin beds thing, American Television
> depicted married couples in twin beds for modesty's sake and it caught on
> from there...people thought that's the way it was Supposed to be.

I thought of that briefly ... but this was in The New Yorker, not on
TV. I'm sure that had it been on TV, Seymour wouldn't have blown his
brains all over the room, either.

(Ah, insidious TV Standards and Practices.)

--tim
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