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...first-year recognition, though his self-titled show should have been recognized over the spinning-its-wheels "Will & Grace" and the living dinosaur "Everybody Loves Raymond." But this year's There Is a God Award goes to the overdue nomination of Bryan Cranston, the funniest physical comic in sitcomland who redefined the bumbling dad for the sensitive-male era on "Malcolm in the Middle...
...year-old widower (Robert Loggia) comes home from vacation with a surprise for his three grown children: a 30-year-old fiance. Since this is TV sitcomland, the May-September romance sends his kids into a wisecracking snit. Before dinner one evening, their barbs get so harsh that the fiance, known as TT, scurries into the hallway, casts her eyes skyward and asks for help: "Chief -- Code Blue, Code Blue! I knew they'd be upset, but this is ridiculous...
...orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about the way the daughter, who was adopted years earlier, resents the attention given the newcomer. Gould, once Hollywood's epitome of anti-Establishment scruffiness, has drifted into sitcomland with surprising meekness. Still, even an Elliott Gould possessed by pods is better than nothing...
Valerie Harper, once TV's best-known neurotic single, is back in sitcomland as a housewife and mother of three boys in Valerie. Unfortunately, she spends more time milking gag lines than paying attention to the details of motherhood. When a youngster spills maple syrup all over the breakfast table, Mom yells convincingly but makes no move toward the table. Is there a mother on earth who would not be there with a sponge in two seconds flat? Of course, the gooey mess must stay in place so 16-year-old David (Jason Bateman...
...Golden Girls, about a trio of unattached women in their late middle years, searching for husbands in Miami Beach. Bea Arthur plays an acerbic substitute teacher, Rue McClanahan is a fading Southern belle, and Betty White is one of those blank-eyed ninnies who exist nowhere except in TV sitcomland. In a typical exchange, Arthur laments that she is growing old: "I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself and almost had a heart attack. There was this old woman staring me in the face." White, after a pause: "Who was it?" Writer-Producer Susan Harris (Soap...
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