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When you're a big star, you don't pass gas for just anybody. But then the star of CBS's most hyped new sitcom is hardly just anybody. So when the writers of Bette conceived a new gag--a celebrity breaks wind in an elevator and blames it on the leading lady--they sent Bette Midler to work the phones herself...
...terrible sequel? I hope this isn't them trying to "do a Bjork" and win prizes at Cannes. What makes people want to cross over from one medium to another? What makes them think they can succeed in multiple fields? Why is KISS bassist Gene Simmons creating a sitcom...
DIED. RICHARD MULLIGAN, 67, lovably paternal character actor best known as the oddball Burt Campbell on the sitcom Soap; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Mulligan began his career as a writer before appearing in dozens of TV shows, movies and plays. In 1980 he won an Emmy for Soap and in 1989 earned another for playing a good-natured widower on Empty Nest...
Your item on new television shows [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 4] cited Bette Midler's program Bette as the one that many advertisers give the best odds for success. Bette as a sitcom queen? I don't think so. She's about as relevant to modern life as Spiro Agnew gags. I'm unplugging my TV now. Call me when her show has been canceled. SACHA A. HOWELLS Los Angeles
...stand a swipe at a network exec as "the genius who told Felicity to cut her hair." But if the WB's brass can't stomach satire that's bound to hit close to home, they'll end up as the geniuses who sabotaged its best new sitcom...