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Even that hoary male type, the sitcom dad, is changing. The feminist era took us from Father Knows Best to Father Knows Nothing--buffoons like Home Improvement's Tim Taylor and Homer Simpson, whose lunkheaded maleness is their weakness. Now we're seeing dads like Malcolm in the Middle's Hal (Bryan Cranston), a boob but a nurturing one who wears every emotion on his sleeve. On the slight but earnest Danny (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T., starts Sept. 21), Daniel Stern plays a single dad who has just turned 40, is vaguely dissatisfied with life and shares his innermost...
...McGwire?s record. As Ed watched SportsCenter and I sat nearby reading, Bonds? season in homeruns played across the screen. "Will you look at that," Ed murmured in wonder. "That?s something else." I glanced up, distracted by the swelling, Roy Hobbs-esque music, and saw Bonds rip another homer...
...which is largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving worlds with words. "Everybody likes a good story," he said when "Campbell Playhouse" began, "and I think radio is just about the best storyteller there is." Thomson sees an ideal match of this man and this medium: "[H]e loved to float away...
...span in my class is from seventeen to seventy, and it makes for a very rich teaching environment,” says Theo C. Theoharis, who teaches in the extension school and whose comparative literature class on Homer, Dante, and James Joyce is a favorite among summer school students...
...always at stake: the arms race begun in World War II, the scar of our country dividing North and South, the fascism of the post office. Stick to what you know is good advice for a writing seminar, but it will never get you into the ring with Homer...