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...best seller, One More Time chronicles her sometimes difficult Los Angeles upbringing and concludes with Burnett landing her first big-time job. "It's not a show-business book," cautions the author. "It's an inventory -- my take on growing up." Burnett, who starred in last week's mini-series Fresno and has just finished a tour promoting her memoir, intends to start work with Hamilton next year on a book tentatively titled Under One Roof. It will be about their experiences while Hamilton was working to overcome her drug addiction, and they will write alternating chapters. The book "will...
...harbor in nearby Fremantle. The skipper of the miniature marvel is none other than Ben Lexcen, 50, the celebrated designer of Australia II, which won the America's Cup in 1983. Featuring a scaled-down version of Lexcen's revolutionary winged keel, the 14-ft.-long fiber-glass Mini 12 sells for about $3,000, is virtually unsinkable and can easily be handled by one person or two from a comfortable cockpit. "Sailing is pretty lonely on your own," says Lexcen. "Now you can take your girlfriend." Buoyed by early raves for his new boat, Lexcen has hopes of selling...
...city fathers may not appreciate the etymology lesson that opens CBS's new mini-series, Fresno. But Creator Barry Kemp (a writer-producer who has worked on Taxi and Newhart) could not help noticing that Fresno, the world's raisin capital, wound up last in a 1984 ranking of American cities according to quality of life. To be sure, the quality of life for the raisin-growing Kensington family has been drying up for years. The family patriarch was crushed to death 20 years ago in a dehydrator accident. Now his widow Charlotte (Carol Burnett) spends her time sipping Bloody...
...dreams, it is hard to tell the parody from the real goods. Fresno tries to toss stink bombs at a genre that is probably impervious to anything short of nuclear annihilation. What's more, it does so in a format virtually unheard of on TV: a comedy mini-series. No multiparter has ever managed to sustain laughs for five consecutive nights. On purpose anyway...
...spoof), might have turned Fresno into the definitive takeoff it aspires to be. Fresno seems oddly overqualified: a parody that is better plotted, acted and directed (by Jeff Bleckner) than most of the shows it satirizes. Six hours without one ludicrous cliff-hanger or evil twin? This is a mini-series that could have used a bit less taste and a little more Fresno...