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Writer:
Bruce Wagner (writer)
Release Date:
16 May 1993 (USA)
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Plot:
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology. full summary
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
Another 3 nominations
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(2 articles)
Some People You Might Know (And Some You Might Not) Are Receiving Awards!
(From FilmExperience. 25 September 2009, 12:47 AM, PDT)
'Baywatch' Named Worst U.S. Show Ever by U.K. TV Execs
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 November 2004)
(From FilmExperience. 25 September 2009, 12:47 AM, PDT)
'Baywatch' Named Worst U.S. Show Ever by U.K. TV Execs
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 26 November 2004)
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Best CYBER-Noir Dialogue EVER
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Cast
(Series Cast overview, first billed only)| James Belushi | ... | Harry Wyckoff | |
| Dana Delany | ... | Grace Wyckoff | |
| Robert Loggia | ... | Sen. Anton Kreutzer | |
| Kim Cattrall | ... | Paige Katz | |
| Angie Dickinson | ... | Josie Ito | |
| Ernie Hudson | ... | Tommy Lazlo | |
| Bebe Neuwirth | ... | Tabba Schwartzkopf | |
| Nick Mancuso | ... | Tully Woiwode | |
| Charles Hallahan | ... | Gavin Whitehope | |
| Robert Morse | ... | Chap Starfall | |
| David Warner | ... | Eli Levitt | |
| Ben Savage | ... | Coty Wyckoff | |
| Bob Gunton | ... | Dr. Tobias Schenkl | |
| Brad Dourif | ... | Chickie Levitt | |
| Aaron Michael Metchik | ... | Peter |
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300 min
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The Friends' "prayer, "O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;/ The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won" is the first two lines of Walt Whitman's "O Captain My Captain" while the Synthiotics prayer "The wind is old and still at play / While I must hurry upon my way,/ For I am running to Paradise" is from W.B Yeats "Running to Paradise."
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Revealing mistakes: The rear-view mirror in Harry's corvette appears and disappears from scene to scene.
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Coty Wyckoff:
[to Josie Ito] When you killed your daughter, your pulse never rose above normal. We're alike in that way, but my crimes will be grander, I assure you. One day I will put out the sun, and make bare every womb that ever was.
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References One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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The real credit for WILD PALMS should go to Bruce Wagner and his flowing, prosaic dialogue. It's like classic Film Noir crossed with cyber-speak, doused with a fifth of Single Malt Scotch and set on fire. There are so many clever, nimble phrases that are turned on their axis and spun into something entirely different.
Examples:
"Mystery loves company."
"Do you know how much it hurts to be SHOT IN THE CHEST??"
"You're no General! You're a pimp with the wings of a bat!"
"You've got quite a mouth on you! Take care someone doesn't take a needle and sew it up."
"Weak dog! You stillborn calf! YOU MAKE ME VOMIT!"
Granted the whole package is a little hard to take in all at once - it's one of those things that becomes more interesting the more you watch it. And for everyone who argues it ends with a whimper, not a bang, well, you may be right, but I posit that The Senator, Harry's real lineage, The Go Chip, and the Mimezine are all besides the point. Enjoy it for one of the campiest, cleverest, most intelligent scripts ever written for television.(Thank You Bruce Wagner) This is a project that is not only entertaining to watch, but a JOY to listen to. It's FUN.