Word: sitcomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1972, ABC's That Certain Summer sensitively, if self-consciously, examined a homosexual relationship between a devoted father and a younger man. Yet it was not until the sitcom Love, Sidney, nine years later, that an apparent homosexual was depicted with some degree of calm as the title character in a series. In 1974, A Case of Rape with Elizabeth Montgomery was the first major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent...
Cheers (NBC). Now in its second season, this barroom sitcom has found its saucy stride and, in Stars Ted Danson and Shelley Long, has created a mismatched pair that could give Tracy and Hepburn a run for their moxie...
Wendy Wasserstein, whose very name is a deadpan joke on Jewish assimilation into the cheerleader values of Middle America, writes about Jews and Wasps without a tincture of sitcom condescension, finding poignant similarities in perpendicular lives, giving just about every character equal time and a fair number of laughs. Director Gerald Gutierrez has mined the big, handsome virtues in this deceptively modest play, putting a shine on everything from the show tunes and rock standards to the voices on Janie's telephone-answering machine (including the desperate plaints of Meryl Streep, in her best and most hilarious performance...
...Sitcom zaps boardroom bozos
economy, Empire Industries is make-believe. The company's boardroom bozos, behaving like rejects from In Search of Excellence, cavort in a sitcom that CBS unveiled 3 last week. The show premieres...