Word: mad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also had a subtle, charming guile. In his eulogy last week, Newt Gingrich recalled how Bono defused a tense congressional meeting with a joke at his own expense. Even Cher couldn't stay mad at him. (Bono jokingly explained away her barbs as proof she was really still in love with him. And after last week's tribute--the final episode of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour--who's to say he was wrong?) He recognized few barriers. Parties at his Georgetown home were smorgasbords of Republican stalwarts consorting with Bono pals like Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and John Waters...
...writing to express my support for Norm MacDonald, who, as anchor of "Weekend Update," was the only funny part of the otherwise lifeless Saturday Night Live. I am asking you to reinstate Norm. Until that time, I will watch Mad TV, which I've never seen but doesn't look real good...
OPRAH (FORMERLY "ZAFTIG") WINFREY OCCUPATION: Running a book club BEST PUNCH: In a 1996 episode about mad-cow disease coming to the U.S., Oprah said, "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger. I'm stopped." Cattle prices fell for the next two weeks...
...TEXAS ("MAD, MAD, MAD") CATTLEMEN OCCUPATION: Killing bovines BEST PUNCH: Thirteen cattlemen have forced Oprah to move her talk show to Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 26 for a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit they filed under Texas' popular "veggie libel...
...Though it could do better internationally, the film seems likely to rank as one of this market's costliest flops ever. It caps a miserable year for its studio, Warner Bros., which, according to Variety, dropped from second to fourth in market share and, thanks to other underachievers like Mad City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, averaged the lowest gross per film of the six major studios. The trade and business press have slammed longtime co-chairmen BOB DALY and TERRY SEMEL for relying too much on old formulas and older stars. The pair have been...