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...demeaning racial stereotypes, the laughs don't always fall on the side of the angels. And speaking of demeaning racial stereotypes, the current issue includes two cartoons dealing with the supposed largeness of African-American penises and a curious TV spoof in which The Nanny's Fran Drescher "paints her butt with shoe polish. Then she sits on her big, black ass and collects [welfare] checks. Hilarity ensues." Well, maybe. But not in The People vs. Larry Flynt, which turns a blind eye to this recurrent aspect of the Flynt oeuvre...
...hour show with a brief monologue, then takes a seat to joke her way through the morning papers and play host to an impressive line-up of celebrities and musical acts. During her first week she introduced nearly every one of her guests--who included Penny Marshall, Fran Drescher, George Clooney, Toni Braxton and Dennis Franz--as "my buddy...
...induce LIZ TAYLOR, reclusive movie goddess and divorce-decree collector (she filed for a seventh last week), to appear in four sitcoms in a row airing on Feb. 26? What would persuade her to pose for photos with the stars of the shows, JEAN SMART of High Society, FRAN DRESCHER of The Nanny, CANDICE BERGEN of Murphy Brown, MARY MCDONNELL of Society and NANCY MCKEON of Can't Hurry Love, some of whom are barely household names? Actually, just a nice request and a substantial donation to Taylor's aids charity, AmFAR. (A CBS staff member who used to live...
...glib Joey and loopy Larry are reasonably familiar figures, their juxtaposition in the same movie is wonderfully unexpected. Joey has troubles enough: debts to the Mafia and his former wife, affairs with two unstable women (Fran Drescher and Lori Petty) and a falling sales record. In fact, the only problem he has avoided is adultery with Donna. Yet when Larry starts waving his rifle and demanding to know who is cuckolding him, it is Joey who takes the blame...
...dealers was Charles St. Denis, who, the authors say, was killed for, among other things, withholding money from Kirtanananda. The guru has repeatedly denied involvement in either the dope business or the homicides. A New Vrindaban fringe member named Dan Reid (Daruka) and a commune enforcer, Thomas Drescher (Tirtha), are currently serving prison sentences in West Virginia for the St. Denis murder. Drescher is also awaiting a California trial for the execution of a devotee who was trying to get Kirtanananda thrown out of the movement. Kirtanananda was eventually expelled, although he remains at the head of his private cult...