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Whither the American sitcom...
...public will listen to Mama. In an effort to communicate with the public about issues that affect labor, the organization has hired Actress Vicki Lawrence. She will portray the irascible, aggressively cracker-brained character Mama, whom she played first on the Carol Burnett Show and later on her own sitcom Mama's Family, in a series of light but straight-talking television commercials on themes such as union organizing, foreign takeovers and brand boycotts. Lawrence, a Reagan Republican, signed a one-year, $150,000 contract with the anti-Reagan union. "This is not Democratic or Republican," says Lawrence...
Lithgow is best known for his role as extraterrestrial-in-disguise Dr. Dick Solomon on NBC’s late-1990s sitcom “3rd Rock From the Sun,” But the 59-year-old actor has also performed in over 30 major motion pictures, received four Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, appeared in countless stage productions, and won two Tony Awards...
DIED. PAUL HENNING, 93, creator of the long-running 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (and its spin-off, Petticoat Junction); in Burbank, Calif. Henning, who composed the show's theme song, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, based the hit series on locals he encountered during his boyhood camping trips in the Ozarks...
...March 7 episode of the sitcom Two and a Half Men, creator Chuck Lorre inserted a statement, which flashed onscreen for a second, protesting that CBS had made him trim a scene that showed the naked back of a young woman--a common enough sight on crime dramas and, say, shampoo commercials. "My problem," he wrote, "is knowing that I work in an industry, or perhaps I should say a culture, that is more comfortable showing a dead naked body than a live one." Says David Nevins, president of Imagine Entertainment Television, which produces 24 and Arrested Development: "The climate...