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...oldest problem in show business: What do you do for an encore? Last spring Ellen DeGeneres, the star of the ABC comedy Ellen, revealed that she was a lesbian, and so did her character on the show (the rules of sitcoms generally require that the star and the lead share not only their first names but also their sexual proclivities). The coming-out episode became the highest-rated regular program on ABC for the entire season. Suddenly, after years of only middling success, Ellen was a cultural phenomenon--the first series on television in which the main character...
...President Al Gore praised Ellen last week, saying it had forced Americans "to look at sexual orientation in a more open light." The Christian Coalition immediately responded by saying Gore was "way out of the mainstream." Meanwhile, the dominance of the gay theme seems to have created friction between ABC and DeGeneres. She publicly threatened to quit the show, which has had solid ratings, after the network ran a parental advisory before a recent episode in which Ellen jokingly kissed a straight female friend. In a future show, Ellen and a woman go into a bedroom; ABC at first forbade...
...young woman, whose identity has remained anonymous for obvious reasons, knows her ABC's and can recognize and name different colors. She memorized the days of the week after looking at a calendar. And that's about...
Here's how they work: small motors inside the base of the sticks send jolts and vibrations to the handle in synch with the action onscreen--from the bumpy roads in Activision's Interstate '76 to the shudder of a quarterback sack in ABC's Monday Night Football...