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<text id=91TT1697>
<title>
July 29, 1991: View Points:Television
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
TELEVISION
Gleefully Ghoulish
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<p>By Richard Zoglin
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<p> TV has often looked for inspiration to the world of comic
books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The
Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle
of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each
half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for
thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show,
garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates
another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced
by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel
along with logic-bending abandon; even when the ending fizzles
(a frequent problem), getting there is a wild ride. Among the
summer's highlights so far: Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn as
brothers who trade sadistic practical jokes in a morgue, Malcolm
McDowell as a soft-hearted vampire who opts for safe sustenance
by raiding the local blood bank, and Jon Lovitz as a sad-sack
actor who auditions for a far-off-Broadway production of Hamlet.
Turns out that the only role available is Yorick. Alas, poor
Lovitz!
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