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...from the Nelsons to the Simpsons, it has largely meant married parents with kids. Not so this year. The lead character on ABC's "The Geena Davis Show" shacks up out of wedlock with a widower and his kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's "Gilmore Girls" was knocked up as a teen; the grown-up star of Fox's "Titus" gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft-divorced dad. On Fox's "Normal, Ohio," dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...
...This isn't the first year TV has explored contentious families or divorce (see "Grace Under Fire"); sometimes, past producers would simply kill Mom, leaving a cute dad who could date (ABC's "Madigan Men" continues the widower-com tradition). But now the nontraditional family is practically mandatory, for reasons as much economic as social. After several years of being enthralled by big-city yuppie- coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy - but with a difference. To stand out, says "Geena...
...other hand, she "never set out to create an 'alternative' family." But it proved the best vehicle for the story she wanted to tell: "a mother-daughter relationship where they were more pals than mother and daughter." In this sweet hour-long comedy, 32-year-old single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raises a 16-year-old daughter - you do the math - Rory (Alexis Bledel), who's more reserved and adult than mom. Lorelai, for instance, wears Daisy Duke cutoffs to Rory's first day in private school and jokes that she offered "to do the principal...
...think I'm fucked up because my mom made me watch Fraggle Rock every day as a child...
www.somanintheknow.com. It's the Signet's worst nightmare...Now that her three sons have all left home for good, my poor mom is suffering empty nest syndrome. First she becomes an Oprah book club devotee and now she's turning to religion. I'm afraid she's going to join a cult. E-mail my mom pick me-ups at mrs_chainani@hotmail.com...A while ago I told you that I thought the new Backstreet Boys single was awful. I changed my mind. Now I love it!...The Office for the Arts asked me to serve on a panel on "Creating Hype...