Word: delaria
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...version of Ecclesiastes is unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible. Cross's blasphemy and his predilection for overly evocative images ("A great big steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable for a vehicle on ABC called, say, Cross My Heart. Nor does Lea DeLaria seem quite ready for her own show. She begins her act by announcing, "It's the 1990s and it's hip to be queer and I'm a big dyke." As David Tochterman, vice president of talent and development for Carsey-Werner (Cosby, Roseanne), puts it, with dead seriousness...
Anything is possible in show business, however. Cross is close to signing a deal with a major television-production company. And DeLaria says, "This guy came up to me and said he was with ((Fred)) Silverman's people, and he said, 'You know, we're thinking of redoing C.P.O. Sharkey...
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