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DIED. RORY CALHOUN, 76, rugged film and TV heartthrob; of complications from diabetes and emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
...paralyzed to make real changes. "Networks are locked in a box like the rest of corporate America," says Norman Lear, who created All in the Family. "In TV terms that translates into 'Gimme an instant hit' at the expense of every other value, like creativity." Instead of looking beyond Burbank for people with fresh ideas, the networks return to the same talent pool over and over. As Imagine's Grazer puts it, "Everyone is sucking up the same creative oxygen." And too often, when something different comes their way, they turn it down. Case in point...
...gets jealous, Ray's girlfriend Shari (Jenna Elfman) gets the warms for Ed, instant celebrity makes Ed antsy, and the network's Mephistophelian boss (Rob Reiner) tries to shape the story line of his new star's life, almost as Ed Harris' TV mogul did for Carrey's Truman Burbank...
...especially nervous when I asked if AAHLRSA keeps the cool stuff it finds on the side of the adoptee's highway. But then she interrupted me with a pitch: "I'm telling you, I have a location in L.A. that is phenomenal: where the 405 meets the 5 at Burbank airport. To me, that's a location...
...what looks to be an American sitcom first, an episode of the hapless comedian's ABC-TV series will be filmed in Beijing and other Chinese locations over several days beginning late next month. Much of the show will be done overseas, with interiors finished as usual on a Burbank, Calif., sound stage. A scaled-down crew of about 10 people is gearing up for the shoot, with the episode currently scheduled to air during November sweeps. The story line revolves around a practical joke played on Carey that finds him waking up drunk, penniless and without his passport...