Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is industry self-love, though, it's tough love. While TV has turned the camera on itself from The Dick Van Dyke Show to The Larry Sanders Show, the current mirror gazing is not just more insider-oriented but harsher. Rob Petrie's foibles were along the lines of tripping over the ottoman, not buying a $250,000 screenplay from "the wrong Jew" in a case of mistaken identity, as Jay Mohr's smarmily obnoxious producer, Peter Dragon, does in Action's pilot. Beggars, a sharp satire set at the fictional bottom-tier network LGT, updates Network for broadcast...
Finally, something seriously Irish without St. Paddy's undertones. The S^
DIED. LUCILLE KALLEN, 76, comedy writer for Your Show of Shows; in Ardsley, N.Y. Kallen was the only woman writer for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's classic 1950s show, where she worked with such comics as Carl Reiner and Woody Allen. Reiner, who later created The Dick Van Dyke Show, based the character Sally Rogers partly on Kallen...
...good humor was only part of the deal. Leslie DiMaggio, 59, of Monterey, Calif., said she was insulted while checking in for her flight here. "Two airline people told me if they weren't able to get everyone on, I'd have to buy another seat." Charles Van Dyke, 46, a Southern Californian--who estimates his weight at 600 lbs., judging by a sumo wrestler roughly his size--nodded understandingly...
...remarkable that so many of TV's most noted comedies--The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H*--never made it to No. 1, while plenty of junk did ascend to that pinnacle. As fun as it would be to go against the conventional, middlebrow wisdom and say The Beverly Hillbillies possessed a sly, Twain-like wit, recent viewings confirm that it was as crude as everyone has always said. The Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley era is another sorry one. So it could be argued on behalf of Seinfeld that...