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Sure, there are too many prime-time cartoons on the air, but remember, each new half-hour of animation means one less lame sitcom. Here the creator of Dr. Katz has transformed his motionless SquiggleVision technique into moving animation, and in doing so has sacrificed some of the banter for which the Comedy Central program is known. But this show, about an eight-year-old who makes films and his mother (Paula Poundstone), is more than smart enough to make you wonder...
PREMIER ZHU RONGJI Perky Chinese leader meets boyish American President. If they were roomies, we would have a sitcom...
MOMMY NEAREST Lost? No, she's been found. Jill Clayburgh, iconic, liberated divorce of '70s cinema, is returning to pop culture as an only slightly older-looking unmarried woman. In the NBC sitcom Everything's Relative, Clayburgh is obsessed with her ex and her two grown sons. They're an amusing lot, and, surprisingly, they come from the producers of The Golden Girls...
DIED. DAVID STRICKLAND, 29, film and TV actor who played a music critic on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan and has a role in the current release Forces of Nature; of an apparent suicide; in Las Vegas. Strickland, who was due to appear in court last week as part of his probation for an October cocaine-possession arrest, was found hanged in a motel room...
Marber's icy dialogue has the timing of a TV sitcom and the lonely echo of a prison cell. "Is there anyone you'd like to phone?" Alice is asked in the hospital. "I don't know anyone," she replies. Marber, who doubles as the director, places his characters in pools of light surrounded mostly by darkness. Their isolation is symbolized further by the play's most startling and curious scene: Dan lures Larry into a bogus rendezvous by posing as a sluttish girl in an Internet chat room, their cyberencounter typed out on a giant computer screen onstage...