Word: fawcett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...search for innovation, the networks this fall tried musical shows, with little success. In development for next year are several prime-time animated series (if nothing else, they will look different). Another attention-getting ploy: big stars. Burt Reynolds is back this fall in Evening Shade, and Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal and Jonathan Winters are among the stars who have shows being readied for mid-season. Most of all, say network programmers, they are looking for high-quality shows that audiences will tune in on no matter how stiff the competition. "We still have a Field of Dreams mentality...
Four years later, he would be vying for a spot on the U.S. national rowing teams slated to compete in the Goodwill Games and the Olympics. He was enticed to try the crew program by former Brooks student and Harvard oarsman Donald Fawcett '89, who told the high school senior of the excitement of rowing for Harvard. Fawcett sent Sharis a postcard from the Henley Royal Regatta in England and the Boxford native was convinced to give the sport...
...Burning Bed (NBC, 1984). Farrah Fawcett, as a battered wife who kills her husband, made everyone forget Charlie's Angels, and director Robert Greenwald gave this TV movie -- a model for scores of ripped-from-the-headlines dramas to follow -- haunting force...