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...premium on being open and honest with one another that we've misplaced the boundaries of propriety?" Perhaps, but they often came with fictions and stereotypes. For City's cool superwomen, a little cynicism can be empowering, as on an episode about an acquaintance's whirlwind wedding. A lesser sitcom would have played the bouquet toss for pathos, but Carrie & Co. let the flowers hit the carpet so as not to spill their champagne. Love is lovely, and sex can be fun. But hey--it's nothing to ruin a perfectly good evening dress over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sex on TV is... ...Not Sexy! | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...Sugar Hill: A sitcom set in a New York City police station, starring Charlie Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not All Ready for Prime Time | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

ROSEANNE Major NBC stations yanking her low-rated show in the fall. Anybody got a spare sitcom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 26, 1999 | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...still laugh at them until this day, and they're nothing to send off to Uncle Lou and Aunt Bernice in Port Chester, but at the same time I've also realized that they're also nothing that would get me in trouble on a mid-1980's NBC sitcom, let alone get me kicked out of school. They're fine...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Maintaining a Healthy Perspective on Life | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Thus, until recently, my only experience with TV writing was a meeting at UPN several years ago to pitch my one brilliant sitcom idea: "It's about a Nielsen family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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