TV REVIEW : Don’t Make Room for ‘Romance’
The summer series “Room for Romance” is “Love, American Style” 1990, the kind of non-stick, inconsequential TV anthology that you can flick away like lint.
It premieres at 10 tonight on CBS (Channel 2 and 8), the locale being a New York apartment house as hermetically sealed and climatically controlled as a shopping mall, the characters being residents who look like they were squeezed from a tube of toothpaste. The sights, sounds and smells of New York are shut out here, as are real emotions and intense feelings.
Tonight’s three stories all involve romance, a sort of quick-dissolving, sexless sex that is set to lilting elevator music. The show’s only recurring characters are a sardonically philosophizing concierge (Dom Irrera) and a precocious 10-year-old resident (Rebecca Harrell). Their too-infrequent, lobby’s-eye observations about the lives of the other tenants provide the only relief from the hour’s tedium.
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