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...marries a veterinarian, moves to Iowa and still manages to do her show every week from a local TV station. That is known as having it all. JULIE, a new ABC sitcom, doesn't have much of anything except Julie Andrews, who puts a little sparkle into the drab material. Her dedicated husband (James Farentino) tends to ailing heifers and brings home an injured dog to share their bed. His two kids at first resent their stepmother (sure, who wants a TV star for a mom anyway?) but are won over by her sunny, motivational lectures. Andrews' husband, Blake Edwards...
...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...
Students find apartments more pleasant than house rooms not only because of extra space, but for the little touches that make an apartment more like a home than a drab dorm...
...appointment. He not only forbids his wife to subscribe to a literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally smashes all jars of imported food in the house, even the Bulgarian apple jam. The life of a third character is so drab that even a tiny gift from Paris, a red plastic spoon, lends his days a sudden radiance...
...middle-aged German (Alfred Edel) visits his renegade daughter in New York City and falls in with a liberated stripper (Annie Sprinkle, the porn star and performance artist). Monika Treut's rambling comedy could use more of the city's notorious juice and danger; her Manhattan is as drab as a Third World amusement park...