Word: commish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commish does have a point. This lovefest wouldn't happen in a men's game. That premeditated pitch to Mantle was hushed up for years, whereas the Sales shot was a surreal, Broadway-like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even...
...Signifies The Commish, Sinbad, MSNBC...
...think, however, that Barry Goldwater would be amused at having his views classified as "liberal," and he's been around a bit longer than the Center. What makes this choice funny, though, is one of the choices for the "good" shows, the ones "aggressively promoting traditional values"--"The Commish." Guess the Center televisionwatchers missed that episode about the gay cop, the one in which opposition to gays is definitely equated with bigotry. (That show may have been from the previous season, but my point remains the same.) Whoever came up with this list really needs to watch a lot. more...
...meantime, more and more U.S. shows are heading north to shoot; there, cheaper studio space and lower salaries (as well as a favorable exchange rate) can reduce costs by more than 25%. Thirty-six American TV movies and pilots and 11 series, among them ABC's The Commish and Fox's The X-Files, have been shot in and around Vancouver this year. In Toronto movie and TV production will bring in an estimated $292 million in 1994, up from $24 million in 1983. The city -- the third largest film-production center in North America after Los Angeles...
SPORT: The Commish Gets Beaned...