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...encouraging trend, several new shows have black or Latino leads, at a time when the medium is still lacking in them. And not every scripted show looked like a snooze. CBS is offering Joan of Arcadia, about a teenage girl who talks to God; in NBC's Miss Match, Alicia Silverstone is a divorce lawyer and matchmaker. UPN's The Mullets--about a pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas...
...elements one needs for success in TV, or, really, in life: love, conflict and porn. In this self-styled Romeo-and-Juliet story, the son of a district attorney falls in love with the daughter of the adult-entertainment czar his dad is prosecuting. "Wonderfalls," like CBS's "Joan of Arcadia," is about a young woman receiving mysterious messages, except that instead of having God talk to her, she chats with inanimate objects - the eagle on the back of a quarter, the tchotchkes in the souvenir shop she works in. It doesn't quite have God's star quality...
...part of his efforts to achieve greater diversity on the force, in November 1974, Tonis hired Joan White, a former social worker, as HUPD’s first female officer in the seventy-five-person force. He described the new officer as “confident, pleasant, [and] attractive...
Under the best circumstances, a parent's remarriage can enrich the entire family. In 1986, a year after her mother's death, Joan Reckdahl's father remarried at age 74. His daughter was delighted with his new wife Agnes, then 67. "My father was a harsh, demanding man," Reckdahl says. "If he had needed support, it would have been difficult for us to take him in." Following the remarriage, her relationship with her father improved dramatically, a shift she credits to Agnes. When he died in 1994, his estate was divided among his four children, according to the terms...
...book club isn't just about books and reading, however. After the discussions end, mothers and sons separate to gab and hang out. "If we just got up at the end of the book discussion and left," says Joan Grossbart, mother of Matt, 13, "it would be a very different group." Besides, who would finish off the Pinot Grigio and popcorn...