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...once filled with happy families and harmonious relationships. But ever since Archie Bunker squared off against Meathead in Norman Lear's All in the Family, tongue-in-cheek antagonism has become the engine that drives most TV sitcoms--and, in the past few seasons, a spate of lighthearted adventure shows as well. The contours of these rocky relationships have become so familiar that the cliche alarm goes off every time a new one appears. Yet with the right mix of skilled performers, the old formula can yield a pleasing chemistry. Witness three new series debuting during the networks' third season...
...offer you change for your twenty? Who hasn't met the nice suburban couple with their laughing gas-like smiles who sing showtunes as they drive down the highway in their sky-blue station wagons? It sounds like stereotyping, as might befit a director first made famous as Archie Bunker's "Meathead" son-in-law, but this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl in Photo." "Frat Guy," "Pick-up Driver," or "Bus Station Bum" are not characters: they are nothing more than...
When Texas Oilmen Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert went headlong into the silver market in 1979 and 1980, they pushed the value of the precious metal from $6 to $50 per oz. and accumulated a hoard worth about $10 billion. That forced up the cost of everything from photographic film to jewelry, and tempted thousands of Americans to sell the family sterling. But the Hunts lost as much as $1 billion in a day in early 1980, when the speculative bubble burst and silver prices collapsed. Five years later, the Hunt family's woes continue to grow...
...Service is attempting to collect from them more than $230 million in back taxes arising from the silver speculation. The Texas-size case--one of the largest IRS claims ever against a family for a single tax year--grows out of $163.1 million that was transferred in 1980 by Bunker Hunt and his wife Caroline to their three children and two sons-in-law. The Government contends that the transfers were gifts and that the elder Hunts owe some $112 million in gift taxes. Family lawyers deny the charges, saying the transactions were loans and therefore not taxable...
Home Front was first staged last June in London, starring Sternhagen and under the direction of Michael Attenborough. Both repeat their roles in the excellent Broadway production that opened last week. One might expect O'Connor (as a milder Archie Bunker) or Fields (in a part that cries out for an actor with the implosive intensity of a Sean Penn) to commandeer the spotlight. But Home Front is Sternhagen's show, allowing her to nail down, with an increasingly desperate comic urgency, the suburban matriarch. This mom will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using...