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   [Date]: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:35:44 -0800
   [From]: Britta Erickson <britta2@leland.Stanford.EDU>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: TV

Susan, you mentioned TV product tie-ins and Melrose Place.  I think it is
Melrose Place that allowed the artist, Mel Chin, to insert actual decent
art into its episodes, as well as subversive messages--for example, during
the democracy demonstrations in China, some characers ordered Chinese
take-out and the container the food was in had a political message written
on it.  For people who were clued in, that show had a whole different
dimension.  (Unfortunately, I didn't know about all of this and never
thought to watch that show.)  Later, some of the art was auctioned by
(Christie's/Sotheby's--I forget) for a good cause.  So if people are
creative, they can do something very interesting with even that kind of TV
drama.

--Britta

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