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Finally, after things dragged on all winter, ABC announced last month that the character of Ellen Morgan would indeed be coming out in a special one-hour episode on the last day of April, just in time for sweeps. That resolved, DeGeneres, who had felt constrained from speaking frankly about the issue while her sitcom's fate was still in the balance, is coming out too. "For me," she says, "this has been the most freeing experience because people can't hurt me anymore. I don't have to worry about somebody saying something about me, or a reporter trying...
...those characters are either peripheral or part of an ensemble. Like Mary Richards before her, Ellen Morgan functions as her show's center, around whom the rest of the cast revolves--structurally, Ellen Morgan is Mary Richards, except she likes girls. She provides the window into the show's comedic world; she is the character we are asked to identify with, the person to whom we are asked to give tacit approval. That's why, in a country that still has a lot of conflicts about homosexuality, this formerly innocuous, intermittently funny series is now pushing buttons...
...ever before--dating back, at least, to then Vice President Dan Quayle's famous 1992 speech in which he lambasted the character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child out of wedlock. One can endlessly debate the question of whether television influences society or reflects it: Does Ellen Morgan's coming out in what is still our massest medium legitimize homosexuality, or does the sponsorship of a bottom-line business like ABC merely reflect its acceptance by a significant portion of the population? Clearly, the answer is both, that TV and culture play off each other in ways that...
Junior Jim Bevilacqua had three goals and an assist. Chupaila also scored three goals. Ian Hafner had five goals and an assist for Cornell. Josh Morgan led the Big Red with four assists...
...Cornell--Hafner 5, Varis 3, Cahalane 2, Campbell 2, Dutton 2, Brospet 1, Wilkenson 1; Harvard--Ferrucci 4, Leary 4, J Bevilacqua 3, Chupaila 3, Crofton 1, DeVries 1, Lopez 1, Lyng 1. A: Cornell--Morgan 4, Wise 2, Hafner 1; Harvard--Ferrucci 7, Leary 1, J. Bevilacqua 1, Crofton 1, L. Bevilacqua 1. S: Cornell--Yost 5, Zorella 1; Harvard--Lyng 9. Cornell 16 Harvard...