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...says Seinfeld. "To actually do your creative thing right in front of an audience and have them judge it right there-that's exciting." His life on the road was chronicled in the 2002 documentary Comedian, and Seinfeld does occasionally emerge to promote the DVD releases of his sitcom, but he has made no effort to cling to the global fame that it bestowed on him. To most people-the vast majority of fans who haven't been lucky enough to catch his stand-up act-he has seemed almost Johnny Carson-esque for the past few years, the wealthy...
When the former Mrs. Rob Petrie made it, after all, onto her own sitcom as a single TV-news producer in Minneapolis, it was liberating for women on TV. But it also liberated TV for adults--of both sexes. Since Mary Richards was not a wife or a mom or (à la That Girl) a single gal defined mainly by her boyfriend, her self-titled sitcom was able to be a sophisticated show about grownups among other grownups, having grownup conversations. Moore made Mary into a fully realized person, iconic but fallible, competent but flappable...
...sitcom that by now is almost a synonym for classic got that way by doing all the things that everyone at the time knew you weren't supposed to do. You couldn't have a female star who was both attractive and funny. You couldn't have her male lead be an urban Latino whose Cuban accent was thicker than a platter of ropa vieja. You couldn't build a story line around a (gasp!) pregnancy. Lucille Ball's contributions to TV's past are so obvious--Vitameatavegamin, the Tropicana Club, the slapstick routines--that it's better to note...
...Ennis, on whom Theo was based.) It's a sign of how quickly Cosby changed TV that in just a few years, it would be the standard that The Simpsons rebelled against. But by introducing TV viewers to upper-middle-class African Americans, the show gave us a realistic sitcom family that America actually could learn from...
...Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. I have done a number of speaking roles, most loquaciously in a sitcom called Blackadder...