From: NAME: Joe Rader FUNC: University Archives TEL: 974-0048 <RADER@A1@UTKLIB> To: NAME: IN%"[log in to unmask]" <IN%"[log in to unmask]"@MRGATE@UTKV X1> Last season there was one episode of "Northern Exposure" that struck me at the time as employing a quite Brechtian technique. The episode was moving along in a suspenseful development of the plot which called for a duel. The two combatants were standing back-to-back in a field, ready for the signal to commence when one of the characters yelled, "Wait a minute, I don't like the way this is turning out." Etc. Etc. A great brouhaha ensued while all the usual characters discussed the matter, sometimes looking directly into the camera and gesticulating to it as if they were talking to the audience one-to-one-rather than through the construct of acting their "normal" characters. Ultimately they cut to a commercial or something, as I recall, and whent he show resumed everything was back in the ur-fictitious story. It was only a brief moment. But I remember thinking that I had never seen anything quite so boldly like Brecht. Joe C. Rader - Univ. of Tennessee Libraries - Knoxville 37917 (615) 974-0048