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...Barbara Walters and four other women of varying ages. As an unknown MTV production assistant, Matenopoulos was chosen for the show to represent youth, a task she accomplished all too well with callow contributions that often left her colleagues dumbfounded. Matenopoulos is now pursuing other projects, including a TV sitcom, a realm in which her ability to be blond and look good in clothes may be more esteemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 18, 1999 | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...going to have to be reborn, not really like a phoenix but more like a troubled NBC sitcom that gets picked up by UPN. Only even better. These are going to have to be my strongest nine months since gestation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Century: The Campaign | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...pilot episode of the Fox network's new animated sitcom The PJs, Thurgood Orenthal ("Goody") Stubbs, the superintendent of an inner-city housing project, tries to chase a swarm of vagrants out of his embattled building. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat," says one, a series regular named Smokey, "but crack don't smoke itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fox Gets Superanimated | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Peter Scolari, Hanks' co-star on his first prominent gig, the engaging '80s sitcom Bosom Buddies: "It's not like there's a movie-star thing with Tom. There's not big aura. O.K., there is an aura, but he doesn't shine it in your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Break No. 1: a leading role in Bosom Buddies, a sitcom about two young admen who dress as girls to live cheaply in a women-only building. The show had one claim to must-see TV: the comic chemistry between Scolari, all neurotic flutters, and the more bullyish Hanks. "There was no reason to hire me," Hanks says. "I was a new guy." Yet here he was, at 23, earning $9,000 an episode: "I made more money in two weeks than I'd made in my entire career." Scolari recalls that "Tom lived in a Leave It to Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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