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...cast of Muppets and celebrities urged Ernie to forget about his rubber duckie when he played the sax. The Muppets sounded like Louie Armstrong. The procession of celebrities was endless. First, John Candy. Then, Jane Curtin, Pee Wee Herman, the New York Mets, the New York Giants, Ladysmith Black Mombazu, Paul Simon, Danny DeVito, salsa queen Celia Cruz, etc. All telling Ernie to "put down the duckie" for a while. It was a rare treat, a scene that affirms Sesame Street's place as the most original show on television...
...Navy Mechanic James Lee of San Diego, it was a cinch. In fact, a year after claiming the Mustang, Lee was lucky enough to win a $28,500 Chevy Corvette in a Taco Bell sweepstakes. Last week a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lee, Marketing Executives John Curtin III and Kevin Kissane and two of their relatives on mail-fraud charges of rigging the sweepstakes. Curtin and Kissane, who operate C&K Marketing of New Jersey (1987 sales: $9 million), allegedly awarded three prizes to friends, and in at least one of those cases kept the money...
...things that everyone will be looking for in Florida is starting pitching. The squad has graduated pitchers Chris Marchok, Kevin Curtin and Jim Cheveney, who helped to anchor the staff last year...
...then I turned on my TV set. Susan St. James and Jane Curtin were playing the title roles in Kate and Allie, the CBS sitcom about two single mothers who share three children and one household. On that evening's episode, the duo spent most of the show in a slapstick routine climbing on their furniture after spotting a mouse on the floor, while their kids stood by, nonplussed. Seemed a little bit like something Lucy and Viv might do in The Lucy Show, when Ball and Vivian Vance played--you guessed it--two single mothers with three kids...
...track. As for the more traditional sitcoms, they are tackling such heavy subjects as AIDS (Designing Women), Alzheimer's disease (The Golden Girls) and teenage drunk driving (this week's segment of Valerie's Family). On a recent episode of Kate & Allie, a middle-class mother of two (Jane Curtin) got a taste of what it is like to be homeless when she found herself stranded in Upper Manhattan without any money. The segment closed with a gallery of stark black-and-white shots of real homeless people. The producers wanted to add a public service announcement giving viewers...