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...laugh because - well, what's the alternative? "People want something that reflects their lives," says creator-star Christopher Titus, who based the series on his autobiographical one-man stage show "Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding." "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, "Titus" looks at how Titus has become his screwed- up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For "Titus," family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop...
...small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal - "Family is one of those things everyone knows" - rather than on gay jokes. (Right. We counted a dozen, six minutes into the pilot...
Although the show was disappointing overall, it had its moments of profundity. In the pilot episode, the school's star running back was declared academically ineligible to play in the big game after failing a number of subjects. Not surprisingly, the boy's outraged father confronted the faculty. What followed was a very interesting dialogue on the weightier issues surrounding the kid's situation: the school's burden of fault for letting him get that far, the parent's responsibility, and the purpose of a high school education...
Barker said he intended to be a flight instructor after his service as a Navy fighter pilot, but saw his career blossom in radio. After working as a news writer and sportscaster, Barker found his calling in audience participation shows on the radio...
Never trust anyone under 18, says this drama, which gives high school the full David E. Kelley (The Practice) treatment: big histrionics, big issues and more hot-button pushing than an attack ad. The overwrought pilot alone hits social promotion, desegregation, guns and student-teacher sex. For an encore, Kelley may have to blow up the school. The staff is well cast, especially Chi McBride, above, left, as a besieged principal and Fyvush Finkel as a charming crank. But in portraying its one-dimensional teens, a surly lot of vipers and nitwits, Boston needs remedial...