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...what? As development season dragged on, Midler rejected five scripts that placed her in sitcom situations--selling real estate, running a nightclub--that came off as insufficient for her outsize talent. Finally, as pilot-shooting season loomed, Mad About You producer Jeffrey Lane brought her a simple premise: let Bette be Bette...
...will she be ignored. In the pilot, she makes a big entrance--as if she's capable of any other kind--hyperventilating with stage fright before a show. "The biggest names in Hollywood, with their knives drawn!" she wails. "What if they hate me? They're gonna hate me!" She moans, she wheedles, she feigns deafness--then takes the stage and belts out Midler's signature song, Friends. The scene, meant to introduce her as a force of nature, has funny moments, but there's something offensive about a sitcom metafictionally begging you to love its star in its first...
...program is designed as a pilot for a series of similar ventures that Gates hopes to establish across the country. The goal is no less than to close the "digital divide"--the growing gap between the technological haves and have-nots...
...becoming criminals, he was ridiculed and called a racist. But since then, a movement toward residential learning has been quietly gaining steam--and often wins support from the parents of troubled youth. Residential schools focusing on needy children have opened in Philadelphia, West Trenton, N.J., and Washington, and three pilot programs have started in Minnesota...
Gideon's Crossing is based on the experience of Dr. Jerome Groopman, a professor of immunology at the Harvard Medical School and author of The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness, a chapter from which inspired the pilot. The African-American Gideon may seem far removed from the white, Jewish Groopman, but Attanasio says the scripts needed no changes once cast. Notes Braugher: "Gideon is a three-dimensional man, not because he is African American but because...