Word: frasier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRASIER: The worst portrayal is the call girl who dated Niles Crane. She is the stereotypical dumb whore. Niles, a psychiatrist, didn't know he was dating a whore. What does that say about his profession? A funny bit for TV, but it wouldn't happen. At least not to someone in our profession...
...entertainment product, and in reality." Or perhaps it's that men's magazines and TV shows are simply offering up images of masculinity that stand in high relief to the ones recent pop culture has provided: the wimpy and neurotic males on Friends, the fey brothers Crane on Frasier, the emotionally broken Detective Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, the guys in the movie Swingers, whose nostalgia for Rat Pack swagger never really expresses itself in anything beyond a taste for suits and cocktails...
...FRASIER IS A RARE SHOW...
...James Collins even question the merits of Frasier [TELEVISION, Sept. 28]? Record-breaking Emmy history is pretty reliable evidence that this show is a rare species and one that, I hope, will thrive for a long, long time. There's very little on TV that impresses me, but I'll put the pedal to the metal to get home in time to see Frasier. The characters are eccentric and complex, the actors superb, the writers the wittiest bunch ever called into service in TV land, and each episode is more brilliantly structured than the last. I think there should...
...insane I don't need any additional help. I am completely capable of self-annihilation at any moment." (That's almost literally true--Grammer has had terrible struggles with drugs and alcohol, and in 1996 he entered a rehab after flipping over his Viper while intoxicated.) No one expects Frasier to match Seinfeld's ratings. Still, millions of new viewers will sample the show, and NBC is counting on it to convert a lot of them. It surely will, and maybe even some of the bad fairies will turn good...