Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upbeat, sometimes preachy tone of the series has annoyed some. "Bill seemed to want the family to be good, and to me, good isn't funny," says Earl Pomerantz, head writer for the show's first eight episodes. Others complain that the series slipped a bit last season, with some segments being especially flimsy and plotless. A few critics have raised more substantive issues. One charge is that the well-to-do Huxtables are hardly representative of the vast majority of black families in this country. (Or many white ones, for that matter; no problem with child care in this...
...coal company," Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper) tells the miners, "you're equipment." He wants to make men of them, and he gets help from unlikely places. The police chief (David Strathairn) is not one to be pushed around. A black miner (James Earl Jones) and an Italian laborer (Joe Grifasi) are tired of scabbing for the company and ready to lead their men to revolt. Elma (Mary McDonnell), a young widow, will stand up against the goons who board at her home. And her 14-year-old son (Will Oldham), a prodigy preacher, will update New Testament parables till Jesus...
Though Lewis may want to be thought of as just another tycoon, he is also an inspirational symbol -- the first black businessmen to gain full access to the giant pools of capital on Wall Street. Says Earl Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise: "The Reg Lewis deal will be recorded in the pages of black business history as a landmark, a sign of change...
...week's end Judge Earl F. Riley rang down the curtain on that possibility, ruling that the prenuptial agreement was valid: Collins won her point. (Riley will take up the issue of temporary support in August.) "I'm very sorry it had to end like this," said Collins. "I'm very happy justice has been done." What would she expect in another relationship? she was asked. "Freedom, thank you very much," she replied. "Complete freedom from all entanglements...
...horror into cheering press releases. No soldier believes a bit of it. Everyone has reached a state of exalted cynicism. "Welcome to Viet Nam, the Movie," Joker sneers to an American camera crew. "You think we waste gooks for freedom?" says the Marine called Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin). Crazy Earl (Kieron Jecchins), who poses next to a sprawling Viet Cong corpse, pays ironic tribute to the enemy: "After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not havin' anybody around worth shootin'." Later, when he picks off a couple of V.C. like fairground ducks, his face creases...