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...producers of the popular Boston barroom series were casting a three-part season-closing episode involving politicians, they invited the Colorado Democrat to do an eight-line walk-on as himself. The cameo, which will air in May, calls for Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having met Sam the night before, shows up to return his coat and is gone 90 seconds later. "It helps my reputation," said Hart. "It'll probably ruin the show's." Viewers will record the final vote...
When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...trend with its fine Ray Bradbury Theater, three original stories by the famed fantasy writer. The tales were seductive and creepy (in The Crowd, a man notices that the same group of bystanders shows up at car accidents across the city). Three more episodes are scheduled for this season. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater on Showtime, meanwhile, continues to provide imaginative family fare. In December, Duvall will launch a second Showtime series, Tall Tales, which will retell the legends of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and Annie Oakley...
...BORN. To Shelley Long, 35, actress who stars as a bar waitress in the Emmy Award-winning series Cheers; and her husband Bruce Tyson, 32, Santa Monica, Calif., money manager: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera...
...hieroglyphics represented the critical breakthrough, attributing the traditional "prejudice" surrounding Champollion's famous discovery to glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe." Schwab invokes, with impressive authority, a wide ranging cast of intellectual and artistic figures from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Herder and Schopenhauer, in an imaginative attempt to reconstruct the vivid mood of self-awakening...