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...take the form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill...
BROOKE SHIELDS Her Suddenly Susan sitcom lands dream spot sandwiched between Seinfeld...
Today the networks are scheduling either all-white shows (the sitcoms Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen and Mad About You are set in urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
...there's this sitcom that requires a lot of physical comedy and is going to get the most coveted time slot on TV, between Seinfeld and ER. Who could be the star? The answer is BROOKE SHIELDS. Really. While the choice of Suddenly Susan, her first foray into series television, may surprise some, Shields sees it as part of personal growth. "Comedy's very liberating," she says. "It allows you to be less self-conscious and less pristine." The show, about a newly single woman who edits romance novels, debuts in the fall. Shields, of course, is engaged to marry...
When NBC's top-rated block of Thursday night sitcoms (The Cosby Show, Cheers) began to fall apart in the early '90s, it was Littlefield who shrewdly remade the night, adding new hits like Seinfeld and Friends and capping it off with ER, the medical drama that is now TV's No. 1 show. It was Littlefield who found himself "laughing out loud" at a quirky comedy pilot called Third Rock from the Sun that was first brought to ABC; he put it on NBC in January and got credit for discovering the only bona fide...