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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...list of celebrities most folks would look to for child-rearing advice, Bernie Mac would seem to come a few places above Joan Crawford but quite a few pages below Bill Cosby. During a stand-up routine in the movie The Original Kings of Comedy, the 44-year-old comedian laid out his idea of discipline: whack a kid with a hammer. "You grown enough to talk back," he ranted. "You grown enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Make Room For Mac Daddy | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...aggressive" comic--a dynamic ball of anger whose act is loaded with four-and 12-letter epithets--also used to joke that the networks would be scared to give him a sitcom like his more cuddly Kings co-star Steve Harvey. Well, that joke's over. With The Bernie Mac Show (Fox, Wednesdays starting Nov. 14, 9p.m. E.T.), Mac is about to become America's most provocative and (trust us) strangely likeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Make Room For Mac Daddy | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Mac plays a successful, childless comedian in Los Angeles (named Bernie Mac, natch) who takes in his sister's three kids because she's on drugs and about to lose them to the state. Bewildered but determined to do the right thing, he turns out to be a soft touch, if gruff. Driving the kids home from the airport, he breaks the ice by asking, "Anybody want a big-ass doughnut?" Later, he walks them through his spacious house, ticking off items they're not allowed to touch. "Don't get me wrong," he says. "This is our home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Make Room For Mac Daddy | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Malkin said he understands the need to treat the MAC as part of a larger planning effort and trusts Harvard to do the right thing...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAC Survey Nearly Done | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...feel that certain things were deferred,” said Malkin, who said that he presented former Athletic Director William J. Cleary ’56 with suggestions for improvements after reading Crimson articles portraying the MAC as a substandard facility...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MAC Survey Nearly Done | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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