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...there is no better source for such material than Southern California. Thus Los Angeles and its environs have been the setting for a steady stream of TV series -- from The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71) to Beverly Hills, 90210, as well as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Blossom, L.A. Law and Baywatch -- in which the sunshine, free-floating wackiness and materialistic life-styles of Los Angeles are at least as important as any character. Says producer Paul Junger Witt, who has five shows on prime time right now (including Golden Girls, Empty Nest and ; Nurses): "California and especially Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How L.a. Captured Prime Time . . . and Turned It into a Platform For | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...whole half-hour. The concept "was entirely drawn out of my passionate relationship with my wife," says executive producer Peter Noah. "We have also had plenty of fights, and if I get my way, every one of them is going to end up on television." Don Reo, creator of Blossom, observes that many programs besides his own feature dysfunctional families headed by single fathers. "Most of them are created by guys who are divorced," says Reo, who for a time was a divorced father raising three children. He laughs. "The reason they do them must be wish fulfillment. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How L.a. Captured Prime Time . . . and Turned It into a Platform For | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...child star could escape the Hollywood hothouse and blossom, it would be Jodie Foster. And indeed she considers when she was 18 to 24, "the years I went off to college and had a life." She armored herself in friends, cocooned herself in the anonymity of a newly plump figure, tangled with the deconstructionist teachers in her comp-lit classes at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster: A Screen Gem Turns Director | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

Capitalism has hit home in Czechoslovakia. In fact, it has hit the President's house. VACLAV HAVEL's Prague neighbors were startled to see an end wall of his apartment house blossom overnight into a colorful mosaic of Procter & Gamble billboards. Havel, who hopes to use the billboard fees to restore the building's crumbling facade, has shrewdly insisted on veto power over the content of the ads. P&G happily obliged with a politically correct mix of environmental messages that stress the company's commitment to cleanliness. Got any wall space in Kennebunkport, President Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It May Not Be Art, But It Pays the Bills | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

Some things don't change. Any fresh-faced 16-year-old who hopes to blossom into a supermodel must meet certain minimum requirements. Elite's Pillard reels them off: she must be at least 5 ft. 9 in., bone thin, have full lips, high cheekbones, large eyes, long legs and a straight, not too prominent nose. Models today are taller and fitter than those of previous generations, with fuller lips and bigger breasts. "The models are still skinny," comments Susan Moncur, 41, a semiretired Paris model, "but with big tits -- real or false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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