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...Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T., starting Aug. 6) is called The Real Roseanne Show, though it's probably pointless to ask the real Roseanne to please stand up amid this crowd. But at least we know what her name is. The woman who began as acerbic housewife-comedian Roseanne Barr became Roseanne Arnold during her stormy marriage to luckiest-man-in-show-biz Tom Arnold, then dropped her surname altogether is now Barr again--a concession to the fact that she's no longer famous enough for a uninym...
That is a surprisingly humble admission from Barr. So is this: after losing her sitcom, then losing a talk show after a two-year run--her agency even fired her--she realized that if she was ever going to work in TV again, she was going to have to shed her bad-boss rep and learn to be (gulp) nice. "I couldn't get a job because of it," she says. "Whether justified or unjustified, I knew I gotta...
Real Roseanne introduces Barr's family and hangers-on, including son Jake and son-in-law Jeff, TV neophytes who will help produce her cable cooking show; Drew, one of the few writers she hasn't fired; and boyfriend Johnny, a children's songwriter she met over the Internet (he emailed her the lyrics to a song called Down at the Doughnut Farm, he says, and "it sorta took off from there"). During the show they all meet in an office decorated with her old TV Guide covers, and she gives them the assignment: figure...
...going to make my new husband executive producer of my sitcom!) seems to be not self-indulgent but good business sense. When they slip out of that zone (I'm going to have my blue-collar sitcom character win the lottery!), the damage can be irreparable. That Barr's comeback plan involves slinging salsa on basic cable only adds poignancy. It is like watching the deposed dictator of a mighty power plotting with her die-hard retainers to return to glory by taking over Luxembourg...
Letting Cutler show her this way was a risk, but it pays off. Reformed or not, she's still funny, and you cheer for her out of the sheer force of her will to fame. And Barr says the show finds her "trying to be nice. Then you see me screw up all the time. I'm showing I'm the best example of a really horrible person who has changed...