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...against The Love Boat and first-run movies without much network backing," Crystal remembers. "I learned in the trade press that the show was canceled after only two episodes." He scraped himself up off the floor and went back on the road. He appeared in a few successful HBO specials, was a guest host on Saturday Night Live. He became a headliner instead of a warm-up act, sought after for his character turns rather than his one-liners...
...country -- in grade schools, junior highs and high schools -- will be casting their votes on the candidates and major issues. Their ballots will be tabulated in a 90-minute TV special, to air Thursday, Oct. 29, on C-SPAN. The show, an unusual collaborative effort, will be produced by hbo and anchored by CNN's Susan Rook. Though it won't be a scientific poll, the results could be an important bellwether: in 1988, 3 1/2 million votes were cast, and they accurately picked the winner (George Bush), even if the results (59% to 41%, against Bush...
POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...
...line between real life and TV life gets smudged further in HBO's new comedy series, The Larry Sanders Show. GARRY SHANDLING, a former Tonight guest host, plays the host of a Tonight-style talk show. Each episode begins with Larry's opening monologue, which sounds just like Garry's real monologues, and brings on real-world guests like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest...
Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) is a hotheaded baseball manager who loses his job with the Seattle Mariners and winds up coaching a squad of inept Russians. But THE COMRADES OF SUMMER is more than just a Slavic Bad News Bears. Shot in the former Soviet Union, the HBO film nicely mixes savvy baseball comedy with post-cold war satire: Sparky has to scrounge for equipment on the black market, holds practices in a cavernous warehouse and listens sadly to Voice of America broadcasts as his Mariners head for the World Series. (It's a fantasy.) Mantegna is delightfully dour...