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...roll." Eisner and Ovitz are "evaluating the team that's in place every day," says a well-placed ABC executive, who adds that the current development season, which will determine next fall's schedule, is key. Eisner has been reading some pilot scripts himself (his favorite: Spin, a DreamWorks sitcom starring Michael J. Fox as a big-city deputy mayor). Thought to be most vulnerable among the existing ABC regime is programming chief Ted Harbert, who (aside from not finding any new hits lately and letting one get by, NBC's 3rd Rock from the Sun) is said to have...
WHEN ROSEANNE CONNER took her television family on vacation to Disney World a month ago, TV's most cynical sitcom clan seemed to have been injected with happy juice. "Man, it's so clean!" marveled Dan, on first seeing the home of Space Mountain and giant Goofy impersonators. "I want to be worthy of living here!" exclaimed Roseanne's sister Jackie. Daughter Darlene was a sour holdout at first, but even she was won over--by a big hug from Winnie the Pooh...
...Rockwell America that never existed for most of them. "My father worked for the same company for 50 years," he says. "We lived in the same neighborhood." It is that ethnic Washington neighborhood that Pat describes in his memoirs as the setting for a kind of good-natured Catholic sitcom, The Battling Buchanans, with basement brawls and dinner-table debates over corned beef and cabbage. William Buchanan--always "Pop" to his seven sons and two daughters--was a successful accountant. But the model he set for his third son Patrick was not of green-eyeshade bookkeeping but red-blooded combativeness...
...Dewolf as the bratty Damis, who Orgon disinherits for insultingTartuffe, is another stand-out. Dewolf's ridiculous, over-the-top teenager has a severe attitude problem and too many music videos playing in his head. He is a little too sitcom, but is nonetheless amusing...
...began her career as a soprano, playing Carnegie Hall and Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender...