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...Jeff Foxworthy Show, which premiered last season on ABC and is moving to NBC, was rebuilt during six weeks this summer. No longer a fish out of water in the Midwest, the Southern comic will find himself living near Atlanta. This time he gets a new wife and potential for more conflict in the form of a female boss...
...appearances, Christopher Reeve is not moving. His hands lie in their black leather rests like fish on platters. Black straps hold them in place. A seat belt holds his midsection in place but is needed only when a spasm threatens to jolt his body from the chair. Otherwise he and the chair are one--the 6-ft. 4-in. frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption that, with its array of tubes, dials, wheels and wires, looks to be part hospital, part tractor...
...security, so he goes off to get a nurse. Now I've missed maybe four, five, six breaths. You don't feel pain when this happens; you feel panic. I only felt a tingling in my knees. I thrashed around. I wanted air. I was like a tuna fish landed in a boat, rolling around with the hook still in my mouth...
Considering that Skinny Legs Restaurant boasted the only dinghy dock in town and that our fish and steak were frozen to the bottom of our boat's fridge, we decided to follow the advice...
...could muster anything more impressive than a hoarse squeak, what exactly would I talk to it about? No one has ever suggested any topics of mutual interest to a middle-aged urban female and a 600-lb. free-ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe me, fella, the minute I get back to my checkbook...