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...been eagerly awaited by Broadway: finally, in a season when big musicals are getting all the buzz, a straight play with a chance of becoming a hot ticket. The U.S. cast boasts at least one marquee name--Alan Alda, who plays Marc with a few too many sitcom inflections--along with two solid co-stars, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina. Director Matthew Warchus' sleek, mod production (a white set dominated by three chairs and a coffee table) is essentially the same as the one still drawing nearly full houses in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three-Finger Exercise | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...different people. Some of us talk to our mothers or fathers almost every day. Some haven't made contact with them in months. Others might not have any parents to get in touch with at all. And even among those of us whose family life resembles a 1950s sitcom fantasy-world, parents' attitudes toward visiting college will vary. Those juniors who are first-born or only children might still inspire their parents' awe by showing them Lowell House. My parents, by contrast, are tuition junkies well on their way to burnout. As of next year, they'll be burdened with...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Here Come the Parents | 3/3/1998 | See Source »

...both students at Beverly Hills High School, is part of a family well known in the entertainment business. She arrived at the courthouse accompanied by her father, Freddy DeMann, the record producer who co-founded Maverick records with Madonna. Her husband Chris Erbland is a writer for the NBC sitcom Mad About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up The Heat | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...music comes wrapped in parental advisories; and television finally kills off Al Bundy but keeps the formula alive--take the lowest common denominator and divide by 2--with a succession of centerfolds turned prime-time stars. And now the White House is made out to be just another tasteless sitcom that causes us all, regardless of age, to feel as if we need a vaccination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Exposure | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...episode. So many people are Seinfeld fans that phrases such as "master of my domain" or "it's in the vault" bring immediate recognition and response even among strangers. Seinfeld has given us nine years of original, intelligent comedy and four unforgettable characters without a trace of American-sitcom sugarcoating. Seinfeld has made us closer as a nation by giving us something we can all laugh about. LISA M. PALUMBO Northampton, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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