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Reminiscing about his college experiences, Antoine tells his wife nastily, "I miss sodomy." As though driven by a bizarre brand of sitcom Providence, Antoine begins an affair with Magdalena, a teenage prostitute whose unplanned pregnancy eventually drives the plat toward its unsettling conlusion...
...watching television, there will be no way they can avoid the $20 Million Man. And so the fall season brings back Seinfeld, Roseanne and one new series on all channels, at every time of the day, Huffington. After a while, he will be as familiar as the most popular sitcom star and just about as real. If the ads are successful, voters may think they know this person well enough to vote for him. They really won't know...
...sitcom nails NBC's Frasier in programming skirmish...
Throughout the movie, Stone cannot resist indulging his overt, slap-in-the-face style. Has this man never heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes...
...recognize a tv breakthrough? Network publicists usually try hard to sound the alert -- a cop show with nudity! an Asian-American sitcom! She TV too arrived on ABC last month with a high-concept selling point: TV's first sketch-comedy show focusing on, and creatively dominated by, women. Actually, from a commercial standpoint the female angle has probably hurt more than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects...