Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters of Engine Co. 16, nearly all of whom are black, specialize in more than fighting the high-rise infernos that ravage the Robert Taylor Homes, part of the largest public-housing projects in the U.S. They serve as mentors, guides and surrogate fathers to lost children...
...turns upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-movie star (Matt Dillon) marks Hollywood's own comingout party. No wonder then that it's a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a fine comic cast. Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, especially in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrific as the sleazy, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps...
...westerner in U-Turn she's due to star as an abused wife in the upcoming The Rainmaker and will appear as Cosette in Les Miserables this spring. Though it is understandable that someone as young as Danes might mistake originality for quality, her performance, sadly, can't possibly rise above a script as dismal as that of I Love You, I Love...
...through the season and the playoffs you just have to be yourself. There's no need to rise above the self--that time will come, but it isn't here yet. Go out there and do what you do day to day. Nothing different or exceptional or dramatic. Don't think that you have to go out there and do something amazing. Just keep up the current standards, and do what you know...
...because Flockhart really is a fine actress and the writing can rise to a higher level, the show has its winning moments. When Ally counsels an obese man about romance, the scenes are touching and amusing too. As such scenes accumulate, a viewer senses that, as with thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, two shows that could also be precious and manipulative and that had similar attitudes and characters, there may be stages to go through: disgust, annoyance, grudging tolerance, enjoyment accompanied by self-loathing, actual enjoyment. Right now, the pain-pleasure ratio of watching Ally McBeal is tilted...