Word: sitcoms
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...burst on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere --the soap Santa Barbara, the sitcom Growing Pains (as a homeless kid), bits in Critters 3 and Poison Ivy--as Toby in This Boy's Life. He is at the center of this movie about a boy who bad-lucks into a stint with an abusive stepfather. And he holds the center; he can commandeer the screen doing nothing, with an eloquent slouch and a gaze that says, beneath the winsomeness, I can take...
...testing so far has only been done on pigs--not a legitimate gauge, since it is hard to distinguish their laugh from an oink-snort--results are promising. Some studios and networks are toying with the idea of "development nurseries" that would venture to create the optimal candidates for sitcom stardom through gene manipulation...
...Death of the Sitcom...
When MICHAEL J. FOX announced his departure from Spin City to battle Parkinson's disease, many thought it meant the end of the four-year-old City Hall sitcom. Not necessarily. Actor CHARLIE SHEEN is in serious discussions with ABC and DreamWorks, which produces Spin City, to join the cast. Spin City creator Gary David Goldberg--who had worked with Sheen on a pilot, Sugar Hill--would return to reshape the comedy in its fifth season next year. Producers toyed with the idea of introducing Sheen's character before the show goes on its summer break in May, but decided...
...tension between wish and reality is written all over Mary and Rhoda, which, for a movie that's not a pilot, looks precisely like one. Granted, it's harsh to compare the movie with seven years of a sitcom great. Yet its script begs the comparison shamelessly. As on MTM, Mary is starting over after a longtime relationship (in New York City, after her Congressman husband's death) and lands a job in TV with an arrogant boss--this time a 33-year-old punk who's made his reputation with ghoulish reality shows...