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...switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation...
Hornstein characterizes Rauch as "a very easy person to get along with--I've never seen him lose his temper. Personality-wise we are very different," he adds. "I would have a much more difficult time working with a clone of myself...
...Fulbright: Also a Rhodes clone, but somewhat less classy: during the fellowship the name of your corporate sponsor must be stitched on the back of all your clothes in large, black felt letters...
...artist can toil in American TV without compromising his vision, and in doing so he helped loose the bonds of the prime-time straitjacket. Who was the last fellow to pull off that parlay -- Ernie Kovacs? And what filmmaker as inimitable as Lynch has ever sponsored other directors to clone his style? The quirky outsider is close to becoming David Lynch...
What distinguishes Herlihy's words from those of so many other defiant pop stars is the music that backs it up. At first listen, O-Positive sounds like an REM clone--a fact which Herlihy attributes to the similarity between his voice and the voice of REM's lead singer. But O-Positive is more than just another post-pop band with whiny and slightly off-key lead vocals...