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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...
...under increasing pressure to do so. It received a harsh letter from Verizon general counsel and former U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week saying, among other things, that "The United States is now on notice that it is effectively serving as a 'fence' for stolen property." Verizon claims that MCI was able to outbid its rivals for government contracts in part because it had robbed other carriers through the rerouting scheme...
...some comfort to know that a unit like his would be more sheltered: not since Vietnam had a civil-affairs reservist been killed in combat. "We thought he wouldn't be going into Baghdad until things pretty much had been resolved there," says Betsy's sister Candy Barr Heimbach...