Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Those were the days. I gladly forked over hundreds of dollars for scalped tickets to Game 6, missed sections by the bushel and watched as the baseball world fell in love with a team whose spirit was bigger than the Bronx's right-field power alley...
With all the excitement, it was almost possible to forget that this was a bandwagon headed down a dark alley. In the hope of getting something passed, John McCain and Russell Feingold had already agreed to drop ideas like their offer of free television time to candidates who accept voluntary campaign-spending caps. Their bill's main surviving feature is a ban on "soft money" contributions, which pay for general party-building activities as opposed to individual campaigns. But even before the Senate debate started, Republican leaders, including Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, were predicting that the smaller bill...
Twelve hours later, with midnight fast approaching, Alley and the cast are still on Stage 25 finishing up Episode No. 5, in which her top executive, Olive (Kathy Najimy), persuades Ronnie to be a role model for a new anatomically correct doll (its breasts sag, and its butt protrudes). By this time, everybody is getting punch-drunk tired. Alley starts singing "I am woman, I am role model, I am whore." No one seems to notice. She smiles. She's happy, really happy, to be back...
...Ronnie is the latest in one of TV's perennial fall lines: the expert at work who can't control life at home (cf. Newhart, Home Improvement). With writer-producers Marta Kauffman and David Crane (Friends) polishing the assembly-line gags until they're hand-tooled, and with Kirstie Alley in fine form, Veronica's Closet deserves to last as long as Bob's and Tim's sitcoms...
That's just a fluke. What's not is Alley's 21-in., fraz-glam star quality. It's more than the exotic eyes and that falling lock of hair she is forever brushing back (35 times in the first 22-minute episode). Her dusky voice can surge into exasperation or giddify into girlish vamping. Best of all, she knows that TV comedy doesn't need pushing; a joke can be caressed into a jewel. Less frenetic than Lucy, more mature than Mary, Alley has a shot at being TV's all-time funny woman. Funny in italics. Woman...