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...right movie can provide sanctuary ? and understanding. Go back home. Go back to Trading Places. All the answers to market turmoil are there, from whimsical millionaires to crop reports to the mysterious Clarence Beeks. And it's got everybody under one zany '80s tent: Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Denholm Elliot. Jamie Lee Curtis' breasts. Paul Gleason, the principal from The Breakfast Club. Even an Al Franken cameo, as a jaded gorilla handler (if there is such a thing...
...themes. Each of these supplicants is praying for the Top-10 ratings success of last season's surprise hit, Touched by an Angel (CBS, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.). Also back this fall are 7th Heaven (the WB, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), the melodrama about a minister's family; Dan Aykroyd's priestly sitcom Soul Man (ABC, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.); and the Angel spin-off Promised Land (CBS, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.). Joining them are four newcomers, each offering a slightly more irreverent approach to religion. A pastor tries to fill his church on UPN's jokey sitcom Good News...
...newer shows more obviously convert secular ideas into religious ones. Matt Williams (Roseanne) co-created last spring's decent midseason replacement Soul Man, which has Aykroyd as a widowed gang member turned minister raising four kids. UPN's Good News has some nice gospel tunes but is both theologically and comically weak. Teen Angel is just another preteen T.G.I.F. show, only dumber. The Visitor is a brash but effective attempt to meld Angel and The X-Files; one of its executive producers is John Masius, creator of Angel...
...article might be entitled "The Canadian Invasion" and mention Lee, as well as John Candy, Jim Carrey, Norm McDonald, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Alex Trebek, Celine Dion, the Barenaked Ladies and some of the many others I have neglected to mention. -Marcus J. Moore...
...shows the network aired were in the works before she arrived. Still, that hasn't stopped the Hollywood boo birds. She has been criticized for everything from poor scheduling during the May sweeps to giving only grudging approval to the network's one mid-season success, the Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man. (Tarses admits she had problems with a first draft of the script but insists she was a solid backer of the show by the time it was finished...