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...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...spent most of her first professional decade shuttling unnoticed between Broadway (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), television (Tour of Duty) and movies (John Sayles' City of Hope). The roles grew meatier -- she played the mother of a troubled ghetto youth in Boyz 'N the Hood and Michael Jackson's mom in abc's The Jacksons: An American Dream -- but she still labored in the shadows until Tina thrust her onto center stage...
...celibate single mom; he's a shiftless stud, currently shacked up with a dimwitted aerobics instructor. She's the owner of an Oakland, California, bookshop specializing in black studies; he's the proprietor of, and TV pitchman for, a car dealership. She wears authentic African garments to work and rides a bicycle everywhere; he favors inauthentic cowboy duds and hogs the road in a four-by-four. Oh, yes, she's black, and he's white...
...mom's dream that she would have a Harvard graduate, because that was making it," Kennedy says. "I really do feel this huge burden and I felt this real burden coming into Harvard just to maximize every minute and to just make every minute count, because, you know, I was the first in so many generations to have this chance...I just couldn't blow...
...adventures? Lerner had never flown in an airplane ("my mom was always too scared") until she traveled with the team to Nationals as a novice rower...