Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYTHING BUT LOVE (ABC, returning Aug. 15, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Angst-ridden stand- up comic Richard Lewis, playing a magazine writer with a yen for Jamie Lee Curtis, made this midseason sitcom worth watching. Now it is back for a few weeks of reruns...
...Sawyer's new ABC show and offered some suggestions about lighting and blocking. But, says Sawyer, "we're not very good consultants on each other's careers. We're very good, astute experts on each other and being happy." Notes a colleague: "She's like a kid, madly in love for the first time...
Lodge takes care to keep these two evenly matched, each as disconcertingly perceptive and sweetly ridiculous as the other. Sexually, it is Robyn who is the lighthearted aggressor and Vic who, after spending a single night with her, turns into a love-sick calf and begins making alarming declarations about leaving his "podge" of a wife. Robyn, ever the teacher, expounds poststructuralist literary theory to him in bed, explaining that what he mistakes for love is merely a rhetorical device, a bourgeois fallacy. "Haven't you ever been in love, then?" he asks. "When I was younger," she replies...
...persistent problem is her unmarried state. Not only do rival politicians taunt her about her lack of a spouse, but the press continually asks her why. Doi, a confirmed feminist, says she simply has not found the right man. She has managed to convey a common touch through her love for pachinko, an extremely popular pinball-machine game, and her fondness for karaoke bars, where she sings along to Frank Sinatra...
PRODUCTION: Gail Music (Manager); Stephen F. Demeter (Systems Manager); Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, Peter K. Niceberg, L. Rufino-Armstrong, Lee R. Sparks (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...