Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down a dark alley. Cosby, now 56 and with a No. 1-rated sitcom under his (expanding) belt, not only resurfaced in I Spy Returns on CBS but also played a police crime consultant in The Cosby Mysteries, the first of a planned series of NBC movies. Dick Van Dyke, now an avuncular 68, portrays a crime-solving physician in the CBS series Diagnosis Murder, and Gene Barry, 74, is back in Burke's Law, a new version of the '60s series about a millionaire police detective who tools to crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...these detectives are easygoing dilettantes. For many, the job is just a sideline, sometimes a reluctant one. "I don't want to work," whines Cosby's character, who is trying to retire after winning the lottery. "I just want to stay here and sleep and play my clarinet." Van Dyke works in a metropolitan hospital, yet he seems to have unlimited time to run down clues in an effort to clear people falsely accused of murder -- people who, far too often, are old personal friends. (With friends like these...
...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, "The time may not be right for somebody with Lea's ability to be showcased properly on network television...
...Beach Boys still play around, of course, although Brian is now making solo music on his own. He is currently in the studio with Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks, good news that demonstrates, like this great collection, that the creative tide is still strong. Surf...
ALTHOUGH IT'S BEEN A WHILE since the media called her every time they needed a quote about homosexuals at Harvard, Allen definitely feels that she was a token for much of her time here. She describes herself somewhat ironically as being "the dyke of the Class of '93," and is conscious of the notoriety that caused...