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...right now is Sunday, when you can watch The Simpsons, King of the Hill and The X-Files all in a row on Fox. The Simpsons is still the cleverest comedy on TV, and King of the Hill creates a world with far more specificity than any live-action sitcom. Both are smarter, funnier and, in fact, more human than Friends or Seinfeld. Meanwhile, The X-Files draws from a bottomless well of inspiration. Two cartoons and a sci-fi show--why are these better than the programs supposedly about real people and real life? Probably because they are imaginative...
DIED. ELIOT DANIEL, 89, tunemeister who composed the upbeat theme song for I Love Lucy; in Los Angeles. Convinced the wacky sitcom would tank, Daniel initially asked that his name not appear in the credits...
Kuehl first stepped into the limelight as a sitcom star, playing the teenage Zelda Gilroy on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," in the late 50s and early 60s. During her stint on "Dobie Gillis," she also first stepped into an identity as lesbian, which she said was both freeing and fatal to her television career...
Using rap as a launching pad, LL is attempting to become a crossover phenomenon. Right now all his stars are lining up auspiciously. In January he performed at the presidential Inaugural. He already has a TV sitcom, UPN's In the House, in which he stars as a father figure and sports-clinic owner, and this fall he debuts in a national ad campaign for Coca-Cola. In September he published his autobiography, I Make My Own Rules, in which he urges his fans to "get beyond materialism." Of his music, he writes, "I know I need to be careful...
DIED. AUDRA LINDLEY, 79, veteran actress best known as sex-starved, muumuu-clad landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company; of complications from leukemia; in Los Angeles. A daughter of actors, Lindley played Broadway, big-screen and television roles, most recently as Cybill Shepherd's mother on Cybill...