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Maybe Don Ohlmeyer was right. Even though Norm Macdonald was funny on Saturday Night Live and is great when guesting on Howard Stern or David Letterman, it turns out the guy isn't always so entertaining. After Ohlmeyer, NBC's West Coast president, fired him from the anchor desk at SNL's "Weekend Update" last year, Macdonald made the disastrous film Dirty Work. And now this...
...Norm Show (Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.T., ABC), Macdonald, in the least likely scenario since Manimal, plays an ex-hockey player who is avoiding jail by paying off a community-service sentence as a social worker. While Macdonald is often amusing, the sitcom never rises above mediocrity. The problem, besides the premise, is that Macdonald's sharp sarcasm may be a bit much over half an hour...
Before shooting began, protesters staged sit-ins on Phi Phi Leh until local workers, waiting to start jobs guaranteed by the movie company, kicked them off the beach. "It was a very exciting day," says Macdonald. "These 10 wimpy Greens from Bangkok facing off against 60 to 100 of these tough fisherman types. There weren't machetes flashing, but it was a bit Jimmy Hoffa." Macdonald takes pains to explain, however, that his crew hauled tons of garbage off the island and is gingerly removing the 60-odd coconut trees as well as replanting the uprooted beach grasses...
...Family" to describe the New York intellectuals--a half-forgotten confraternity of writers and thinkers--clustered roughly around Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti...
...stipulate how PBHA was to use the funds. While the organization has had financial trouble in the past, MacDonald said Rey's bequest would probably be used to fund PBHA's summer camps, in accordance with Rey's interests...