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...Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal made their grand return to television in CBS's Good Sports. Their strained repartee made Nick & Nora look like a match made in heaven. Producer Norman Lear was born again in CBS's Sunday Dinner, a family comedy with a religious twist. Jimmy Swaggart's sermons got more laughs. James Garner, starring as a con artist turned city councilman in NBC's Man of the People, proved likability goes only so far in TV. You also need a script...
...Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal made their grand return to television in CBS's Good Sports. Their strained repartee made Nick & Nora look like a match made in heaven. Producer Norman Lear was born again in CBS's Sunday Dinner, a family comedy with a religious twist. Jimmy Swaggart's sermons got more laughs. James Garner, starring as a con artist turned city councilman in NBC's Man of the People, proved likability goes only so far in TV. You also need a script...
After Somalia's longtime dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre, was overthrown by a coalition of clan-based armies last January, he was replaced as President by Ali Mahdi Mohammed of the Hawiye clan in central Somalia. In September the new President's authority was challenged by General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, a fellow clansman and chairman of the ruling United Somali Congress. The President, meanwhile, has been trying to have Aidid ousted from his position as party leader. An estimated 500 people were killed in street fighting two months ago. Weapons flooded the city, and most urban males began carrying rifles. After...
...slavish chronicling of consumer ephemera, has the taint of the passe. Many magazines that served as arbiters of hipness have gone out of business, including Egg, 7 Days, Smart and Fame. In the meantime, Vanity Fair thrives by sticking to cover subjects that have the rosy glow of maturity: Farrah and Ryan, Sly Stallone, Madonna. At the same time, such magazines as Workbench, Homeowner and 1001 Home Ideas are briskly building up their circulation. One of the hottest newcomers is Countryside, a Hearst glossy about the virtues of conservation, rural landscapes and life in the exurbs...
...stars cannot redeem bad sitcoms. This season has already brought us Burt Reynolds sleepwalking through the overrated CBS comedy Evening Shade. Now Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal have set back their careers about 10 years (three for her; seven for him) by fronting another grueling CBS entry, Good Sports. Fawcett plays Gayle Roberts, a veteran anchor for an all-sports network run by a Ted Turner-like mogul. O'Neal is "Downtown" Bobby Tannen, an ex-football star fallen on hard times, who is brought in to be her on-air partner. Their bickering, Moonlighting-style relationship is signaled...