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the cable-tv guide to deconstructionWe've got RCN cable television, which provides an on-screen guide with handy little descriptions of the shows. The guide isn't too concerned about semantics, though! Sometimes the description is just too long for the screen and so the guide cuts out some part in the middle in order to leave room at the end for a brief cast list. This leads to some rather interesting descriptions. Here are some of our faves:
Marooned - Oscar-winning special effects enhance the tension as mission control races against time and a hurricane to retreive astronauts trapped in Gregory Peck.
The Gingerbread Man - Interesting twists intersect in this John Grisham story about an arrogant lawyer whose affair with a waitress plunges him into her Kenneth Branagh... Partial Nudity.
The Thirteenth Floor - After his mentor is brutally murdered, a computer wizard goes after the killer by slipping into a virtual-reality universe that looks like Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Star Trek: Voyager - En route to an intergalactic conference, a shuttle containing Chakotay and Seven of Nine is damaged by a forcefield, marooning the pair on a Kate Mulgrew.
Check your local cable listings for these intriguing shows!
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