Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, written by juniors Mo Rocca and Oren Izenberg, tells the story of Belle Bottoms (Peter Ferren), whose "pad is going condo" so she has to come up with the "dinero" or she'll lose her "spread." Belle brings her '70s gang of friends back to 1875 in order to find her great-great-great-etc. grandmother Lady Ophelia Bottoms and retrieve the long-lost family fortune...
Rocca's character--a Jewish mother/mystic named Greta Grippe--takes the gang back in time with some very amusing incantations and strange body gyrations. They arrive on Mary Tyler Moors (no, I'm not kidding), the site of the Bottoms family manor, and proceed to further confuse an already complex family crisis...
...number is disappointing, as is the whole '70s scene. The writers seem to think that the '70s are funny in and of themselves, which is to some extent true, but not enough to warrant not including a real joke for the first 15 minutes. But as soon as the gang heads. back in time, the show picks up and stays basically hilarious...
...afternoon in early November after cruising gang members twice tried to run down his son, the beleaguered auto mechanic finally lost his cool. Rodriguez fired a semiautomatic pistol into the air from his backyard to signal that he'd been pushed far enough. Neighbors called the police, who this time arrived within minutes and arrested Rodriguez. "I begged them not to take me and leave my family without protection," he remembers bitterly. But Ralph Rodriguez went to jail...
...gang's power to terrorize was slipping. One gangster claimed to have taken out a $3,000 "contract," which came to nothing; another pointed a pistol at the Rodriguez home -- but was arrested. "Despite all the bad things that have happened, I still believe in the system," says the amazingly resilient Rodriguez. "I actually look forward to the neighborhood getting cleaned...