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Then there's Valerie Cherish, whom you'll recall as the star of the seminal late-'80s, early-'90s sitcom I'm It. O.K., you won't recall her: she's a character, played by ex-Friend Lisa Kudrow, on the HBO sitcom The Comeback (Sundays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.). But you've seen her kind a lot lately: a celebrity desperate to get back in the spotlight. She keeps her old TV Guide cover and a portrait of her Leno appearance framed in her house like a shrine to a former, dead self. She gets a chance to land...
...Comeback knows how quickly and badly this story can end. But this HBO sitcom can be self-serving and smug about those awful networks and their barbaric reality shows. When Valerie meets Kim Fields (The Facts of Life) and Marilu Henner (Taxi) playing themselves at an audition, Fields sniffs, "Who is so desperate for a comeback that they actually want cameras to follow them around all day?" Fields, we should note, once did an episode of the E! dating show Star Dates...
...while I appreciate guns, I also appreciate the need for gun laws. Without them, Dad's quip--"A well-armed society is a polite society"--holds true only if your idea of "polite" is something akin to HBO's Deadwood or the Sunni triangle. Which is why I'm perturbed by the Florida legislature's decision to pass a bill, signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush last week, allowing virtually anyone who feels threatened at any time and in any place to whip out a gun and open fire. The law decrees that a person under attack...
Project Greenlight (Bravo, Thursdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) The moral of this Hollywood reality show, formerly on HBO, is that we get the movies we deserve. This year's victim--er, winner--John Gulager, is picked to shoot a horror flick by Dimension Films, only to be immediately undermined by paranoid executives. We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office...
...late March, all sorts of sonorous media drumbeating began. Apparently Stephen King had failed to clear the field, and there were a gazillion new Red Sox books coming out. (Mercenary opportunists!) There was a new Sox HBO documentary on reversing the curse, there was a new Sox feature film starring Drew and Jimmy and directed by the Farrellys (true fans, at least, those Providence boys). And there was, principally, the opening day bash at the Stadium approaching: Sunday night, April 3, nationwide, prime time. The players had barely finished their stretches, and it felt like October all over again...