Word: simone
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...guest host or regular musical act, and surely part of the appeal for teenagers lies in the assurance that they can tune in and never be confronted with the image of 1970s star (and eternal guest host) Chevy Chase in a mock game show or a Paul Simon--Edie Brickell duet. Significantly, Mad TV boasts a more balanced cast than its competitor. Among the group of eight there are three women and three black cast members. SNL's larger troupe of 11 features three women and only one black cast member, Tim Meadows...
...produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...
Paul Davies is a professor of natural history at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the author of more than 20 books, including The Mind of God (Simon & Schuster; 1992) and, most recently, Are We Alone? (Basic Books...
...addition, fees for students receiving these loans will not be increased in the near future, according to Robert M. Shireman, legislative director for Senator Paul Simon...
...newspaper potentate William Randolph Hearst. Yet so controversial was Kane before its release in 1941, and so overwhelming its pressure on Welles' reputation, that it can be seen as the apex of his career, perhaps of Hollywood's Golden Age. It surely makes the man worth one more biography, Simon Callow's Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (Viking; $29.95), and the film worth a long documentary look, The Battle over Citizen Kane by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein, on PBS's The American Experience next Monday. These solidly researched works revive a thrilling era in American theater and film...