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...Good Morning America. Richard, insisting this was no hoax, on Oct. 17 announced he would only answer questions submitted in writing and left in a cardboard box outside his home. It turns out that he and his wife had met at the Lee Strasberg acting school in Los Angeles. ABC News quoted his former business partner Barbara Slusser saying that he often put his kids in harm's way: "The last straw for us," she said, "was when Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike were heading toward the Texas coastline and Heene wanted to go back there and take the kids...
...first week as co-host of the ABC talk show The View, Sherri Shepherd declared that she didn't believe in evolution. When co-host Whoopi Goldberg pressed her to say whether she thought the world was flat, Shepherd responded, "I don't know ... I've never thought about it." That flub and the ensuing media hysteria inspired her to write Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break. The comedian, who also stars in the new Lifetime sitcom Sherri, dished to TIME about how the incident played out, why women are too hard on themselves...
...Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics were just about to start Game 3 of the 1989 World Series on Oct. 17 when the shaking began. ABC play-by-play announcer Al Michaels managed to tell viewers, "We're having an earth-" before the signal went dead. The temblor was brief - just 15 seconds - but the damage caused by the 6.9-magnitude quake was impressive. It killed 63 people, injured thousands and caused $7 billion worth of damage throughout California's Bay Area, including major destruction to the Oakland Bay Bridge. "It was a good sized shock," says Peter Yanev, chairman...
...build a park on an abandoned development site occupied by a giant pit. (Throwing stimulus money into a literal hole in the ground left behind by the real estate bust: it's the official sitcom of the Great Recession.) And Modern Family, a hilarious new mock-doc on ABC, adapts the style to domestic comedy. When one half of a gay couple blames his weight gain on a nesting instinct spurred by their adoption of a baby, the scene cuts to night-vision-camera footage of him binge-eating in the pantry...
...wisecracking-on-a-couch school, and this fall brings plenty of weak, high-concept sitcoms like Hank, which features Kelsey Grammer as a downsized CEO. Even some more-inventive sitcoms are familiar types: FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is like a raucous, lowlife Seinfeld, and ABC's Better Off Ted, a workplace satire with a weird but sincere heart. But one look at Seinfeld's old home, NBC's Thursday night - with The Office, Parks, 30 Rock and the bright new outcasts-in-junior-college comedy Community - and we can see how sitcoms have become more...