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...This time Spears, 22, is undergoing a waiting period--er, engagement--before she gets hitched to boyfriend KEVIN FEDERLINE. Federline, 26, was a backup dancer for Spears' ex, singer Justin Timberlake. The groom-to-be has a 2-year-old daughter and a baby due in July with former Moesha star Shar Jackson, who has trashed the couple in the press since they started dating in April. We wonder if Spears' mother, who orchestrated an annulment last time, has a divorce attorney on speed dial...
Until Antwone Fisher, Luke said, his on-screen experience consisted solely of two one-liners on the television show “The King of Queens” and one memorable line on “Moesha...
Still, when I looked at the list of shows it planned to tape for me in the future, I was creeped out. TiVo thought I would enjoy Boy Meets World, Moesha and an Olsen twins movie called To Grandmother's House We Go. I spent my entire Sunday afternoon using the special thumbs-up, thumbs-down button to try and set it straight. I gave thumbs-down to figure skating, Hollywood Squares, Judge Judy and The View. Yet when I came back from getting the laundry, I caught it taping another Boy Meets World. I went into a clicking rage...
...will these writers get to tell their stories? A recent controversy on UPN's family sitcom Moesha suggests that defining "the black experience" is thorny even on a show with nine black writers. As the title character (played by Brandy) moved on to college, the network sought to add gritty elements to make the squeaky-clean comedy more "relevant" by considering storylines about sex and gangs. One of the show's creators, Vida Spears, resisted the changes and was forced to leave...
...lesson of Moesha is not whether gang banging or being a well-adjusted teen virgin fits the black experience. Both do. Both fit the white experience too, although no one would suggest that white characters must be either Tony Soprano or Dawson Leery. Representativeness--one show expected to carry a whole race--is the curse of minority-cast series when so few are on TV. City's unusualness as a drama is a big publicity boon but also a burden. "Minorities in the business are rooting like hell for this show," says Charles Holland, a black writer. "The stakes...