At that point, I think the advertising model will shift -- as unlikely as that seems now -- from the unrealistic promise of infinite audiences to smaller aggregations of people really engaged, really interested, and predictably present.
Casts and crews were held hostage as they withstood Kubrick's infinite futzing, and audiences were held in eager suspense by P.R. campaigns that often oversold the films' commercial appeal.
In the end, neither found the sustained audience that "Infinite Jest" did, nor the critical response.
We've gotten decades of Homer Simpson, who "remains in a suspended, infinite present," while his audience moves from one satirical pop-culture reference to the next.
Especially now that every other aspiring troll has a platform, an audience, an infinite capacity for self-abasement, and a dream.
He took infinite care with his audiences, and as a fearless explorer in an area of performance that is potentially open to abuse, he had a heightened awareness of ethical considerations and the duty of care he had to those who risked taking part.
Partner in Studio AKA and Cartoon D'or winner, Marc Craste said in a recent interview with Tim Lindsay, "A real face with its infinite subtleties can absorb an audience and tell them all they need to know.
Still, because Friday's performance was streamed live (as a show on Friday will be), the audience was potentially infinite.
In the past, she suggests, novelists could rely on a nearly infinite attention span from their audience, but TV and the movies have wrecked all that.
By the early nineteen-forties, its head, Walter White, had launched a campaign to rid the screen of all "subservient, dimwitted, craven, eye-rolling" Negro caricatures, who, in being taken for truth by a white audience, were "doing infinite harm".
