Word: sitcoms
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...many people have actually heard of this sitcom? "Melrose Place," on the other hand, has a gay character and is known about by almost everyone in America. Yet it's not on the list. Hmmm. One gets the feeling that these people don't watch television that much...
...folks on the street still yell out when Howard walks by, combining the names of his TV alter egos. Since his days as a child actor, however, Howard has gone on to direct a string of high-concept but engagingly human Hollywood entertainments (Splash, Cocoon, Parenthood) while maintaining his sitcom reputation as the most likable kid on the block. Not that Howard's easygoing nature prevents him from firing unprofessional actors or screenwriters who can't deliver the goods. "He's tougher than all of us," Creative Artists Agency chief and Hollywood hardball player Michael Ovitz has said...
Even so, the rest of television will remain. On Saturdays alone, kids can watch as many as seven hours of WCW and WWF wrestling. Daytime talk shows like Ricki Lake are aiming at younger and younger audiences. Six-year-olds can watch reruns of the raunchy sitcom Married . with Children well before their bedtime. Then there are the commercials. Pay attention, for instance, to an ad for Starburst candy in which the adult world magically disappears when you pop a Starburst into your mouth. The message is clear and dangerous: kids can make things better by ingesting this incredibly cool...
...only thing Schumacher and his scrupulous craftsfolk forgot to give the movie was life -- the energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe. The script, by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman, settles for the stale pose of antiheroic dialogue and TV sitcom irony. Barbara Ling's sumptuous production design is mainly a reminder of better, quirkier films (Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy). The special-effects aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward...
...difficult for the network to see what the show is. We just got hip enough to watch Seinfeld and see unmarried people having sex. This show isn't going to be Growing Pains or Cybill," she says, referring to the AbFab-influenced, modestly rated Cybill Shepherd sitcom in which the main character has a boozy, brassy best friend...