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Shakespeare: "Why does everyone fuss about clocks? Don't they see a great play? To be the playwright whom everyone mocks, it is most distressing to me in this...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

Arsenio plays an Atlanta sportscaster who lives with his beautiful, hardworking lawyer wife (Vivica Fox) and her Harvard-educated brother (Alimi Ballard). The plots are standard sitcom fare: he goes off to a bar with his buddies when she wants to cuddle at home; they fuss and make up. The writers have been culled from some especially bland series. Hall had a much publicized fight over "creative differences" with his former head writer, David Rosenthal, a veteran of Ellen, and replaced him with Timothy O'Donnell, who had worked on Dave's World and Growing Pains. Three other writers come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ARSENIO HALL: WHOOF! HERE HE IS AGAIN | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Remember the fuss that bubbled up when it was suggested that the title character in the TV show Ellen might come out? The controversy eventually petered out, but the idea didn't. The script for the episode in which Ellen announces she's gay, sources tell TIME, landed on the Disney TV honchos' desks last week. If approved, it will probably air early in the May ratings sweeps. Accordingly, the show would be completely revamped next year. Rumor has it that star ELLEN DEGENERES is looking for a whole lot more money and her network is looking for a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...Holloways for so long," said Dorothy Collier, this year's best-in-show judge, "I wanted to avoid showing favoritism. Pa needed to be perfect--and he was." When her decision was announced, the Holloways and Del Torres converged on Pa and son and made a pretty good fuss. Pa looked slightly embarrassed. "This is the greatest moment of my life," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: A DOG HAS HIS DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

Some German officials argue that the whole fuss was cranked up by the Scientologists "to achieve what we won't give them: tax-exempt status as a religion. This is intimidation, pure and simple." Scientologists campaigned in the U.S. for years before receiving tax exemption in 1993, and Washington has not asked Bonn to grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Germany Have Something Against These Guys? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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