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...dirty secret of a show like "Titus" (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET) is that discord is hilarious. You laugh because - well, what's the alternative? "People want something that reflects their lives," says creator-star Christopher Titus, who based the series on his autobiographical one-man stage show "Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding." "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, "Titus" looks at how Titus has become his screwed- up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish...
...When Amy Sherman"Palladino wrote "Gilmore Girls" (Thursdays, 8 p.m. ET), on the other hand, she "never set out to create an 'alternative' family." But it proved the best vehicle for the story she wanted to tell: "a mother-daughter relationship where they were more pals than mother and daughter." In this sweet hour-long comedy, 32-year-old single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raises a 16-year-old daughter - you do the math - Rory (Alexis Bledel), who's more reserved and adult than mom. Lorelai, for instance, wears Daisy Duke cutoffs to Rory's first day in private...
...Sherman-Palladino wrote earlier for "Roseanne," and while "Gilmore"'s tone is much different, the honest, flaws-and-all mother-daughter relationship is familiar. "Roseanne" likewise has its DNA on "Normal, Ohio" (Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET, starting Nov. 1) - starring "Roseanne"'s John Goodman - which echoes that show's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner ("That '70s Show") conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man ("The Odd Couple" without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town...
...Freemasons led the way by rank, followed by the district federal commissioners and then a good body of "Gentlemen of the town and neighborhood"; and last came "the different artificers, et cetera... The ceremony was performed by brother Casaneva, master of the lodge, who delivered an oration well adapted to the occasion." President George Washington was working in Philadelphia...
...ET TU, JOHNNY...