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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack Benny Show" and "Amos 'N' Andy," programming is strengthened by several dramas anchored by the performances of Jessica Tandy, Paul Muni, Raymond Massie and Eva Le Galliene. Variety shows quickly gained prominence, led by the performance of Milton Berle on NBC's "Texaco Star Theatre." Berle utilizes sight gags very successfully. As The New York Times noted, "Television no longer threatened to bring theater to the home: it delivered...
...half the time. The rest of the week it's usually fast food. This [pizza, clam chowder, salad] is a lot healthier." Although just a gourmet-pizza toss from the gas pump, Foodini's is decidedly upscale: light jazz, vodka-blush pasta sauce and not a microwave burrito in sight...
...Suharto himself. Senior figures at the Pentagon are skeptical that Suharto is ready to step down. Said a Pentagon official: "My sense is that Suharto will not go willingly. I think he'll put up a fight, and it could get very bloody." Most Indonesians were terrified by the sight of mobs running amok in Jakarta last week, and terrified because there was no immediate solution in sight...
People generally want to avert their eyes from the sight of those dealing with overwhelming physical challenges. But CHRISTOPHER REEVE won't let us. Reeve's book Still Me lodges itself at No. 1 on various best-seller lists. No wonder. By the day of his book-launch party, Reeve had already appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman (who, oddly, did not use the opportunity for a guest-specific Top 10 list), the Today show, Oprah, 20/20 and Larry King Live and done countless print interviews. Writing the book, Reeve says, "was one of the highlights...
...Grant) makes a large stretchable doll dance with Uncle Huck-A-Buck (Dominique Kelley) as she asks him questions like, "Why do I get paid more than you?" Eventually, he loses "the beat," and has to conform to what everyone wants him to be. But hope is still in sight, in the form of Grant showing off his breathtakingly intricate steps in "Green, Chaney, Buster, Slyde," a tribute to the masters...