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...foreshadow of Monty Python. Just as they took to their record producer, George Martin, because he had produced comedy records with Sellers and the Goons, so they felt a kinship with Shenson. At this point, Shenson could have easily opted for a standard pop film formula. A sitcom writer could devise a fluffy story involving the boys, leaving space for a few jaunty numbers. And a competent TV director could shape it up into a palatable confection. The studio and fans would have been content...
...Rather than tread the sitcom writer route, Shenson and Lester selected Alun Owen, an acclaimed Liverpudlian playwright, to write the script. Owen was finely attuned to the nuances of the rough working-class humor indigenous to Liverpool, and rather than impose artificial comedic personas on the Beatles, he simply constructed larger-than-life interpretations of traits he observed in the individual Beatles...
...fans (ask Patrick Stewart and Kate Mulgrew). But The X-Files isn't the only series of a certain age adding a prominent new face and taking a prominent risk. After losing nice guy Michael J. Fox, who's fighting Parkinson's disease, ABC's city-hall sitcom Spin City added bad boy Charlie Sheen. On NBC's Law & Order, Dianne Wiest takes over from Steven Hill, who was the show's savvy, world-weary district attorney for 10 years. Law & Order, driven more by taut crime tales than characters, has gradually jettisoned its original cast and flourished ("This sounds...
...When you first found out John Ritter was in the play, did you think, "God, I can't believe I have to work with a washed-up sitcom actor...
Every star is eventually forced to attempt a comeback. Elvis had his 1968 comeback special. Burt Reynolds had Boogie Nights. It's inevitable. And now Bette Midler has her TV sitcom and her new album, both entitled Bette. The less said about the show, the better. If anyone can salvage it, Bette Midler can, but she has her work cut out for her. As for the album, you're better off sticking with her past efforts. As I listened to Bette, several songs seemed vaguely familiar, as if I'd heard them in an elevator or a department store...