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...trend perhaps started in the late '80s, when Michigan housewife Terry Rakolta crusaded against Married...with Children, elevating the Bundy-family saga from crapola to cause celebre. Now the job of shocking an increasingly unshockable bourgeoisie falls ever more to commercials, ratings stunts like Ally McBeal's--you'll be stunned to see these hot women kissing!--or worse. No one will rank Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? with Roots, yet what good TV program has lately stirred such debate about feminism, money and a holy sacrament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Gift | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...Ally McBeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Very Special Episodes | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...That's awesome. If you had a theme song a la Ally McBeal, what would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: HUPD: Harvard's in-house police fight parasites and make friends. | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...they work their way through their various relationships, that friendship is both funny and genuinely warm. The casual acceptance of smoking, alcohol use and sex (aside: could Renee Zellweger, recently cast as Bridget, duplicate this very British aspect of Bridget?) shows that Bridget is less high-strung than Ally McBeal, the inevitable object of comparison. And some genuinely hilarious moments pepper the novel: going to Mark Darcy's house and finding a "lithe oriental boy, stark naked, smiling weirdly, and holding out two wooden balls on a string and a baby rabbit...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping up with the Jones | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...NOSE? With nearly 200 million of the coins in circulation four weeks after launch, the U.S. Mint's new Sacagawea Golden Dollar, top, is right on the money. Or is it? The Lewis and Clark Shoshone guide was given an "Ally McBeal nose job" by the Treasury after officials saw the artist's original design, complains the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild. Not so, says the Mint. Any differences (an earlier version of the coin is at right) are the result of mass-production limitations. Heads! Your call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mint Condition | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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