September 18, 2003

A NOVA ESTAÇÃO
A New Yorker publica um bom artigo sobre a nova temporada de televisão nos Estados Unidos, com destaque para a série «Carnivale» da HBO e sobre o novo talk-show de Ellen DeGeneres na NBC, e a este propósito não resisto a um extracto: For her first show, she paid an unscheduled visit to the studio commissary before the show aired and asked some men in work uniforms if she could sit down with them. She asked them what they did, and one said he was an elevator man. “We were just in the elevator!” she said, as if this made them practically related. “It was fantastic—I loved it!” She got him to call his wife to tell her to watch the première. His wife didn’t catch what he said, so he repeated it. Ellen took the phone from him and said, as if she really meant business, “Donna? It’s Ellen DeGeneres. I don’t know why he has to tell you twice. It’s easy. Watch ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ September 8th.”