Word: sitcoms
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...venerable, so upper-crust American. In the early 1960s, a pretty junior high classmate of mine served as a harbinger of the future by answering to Tiffany. Her we-should-have-seen-i t-coming destiny: a brief career as a braless starlet on a now forgotten TV sitcom...
First they convert their swimming pool into a theatre. Then, to inaugurate it, they fill it with transvestites. In true Adamsian style, La Cage aux Folles was staged as the first production in the Adams House Pool space. With its tidy sitcom plot, neatly resolved and well-acted, and its requisite cross-dressing humor and flamboyance, Harvey Fierstein's musical does justice to this theatre opening...
...stairs to a coffee shop on Ventura Boulevard. "That's why I like it." Sure enough, they put their names on a list and are told there's a 10-minute wait. Actually, it is 25 minutes before a table is cleared for the creators of TV's hottest sitcom...
...fifth season on NBC, Seinfeld is in its glory days. Last winter, moved to a Thursday-night time slot following Cheers, the show vaulted into the Nielsen Top 10. This fall, without Cheers' help, it's in the Top 5. Against all odds, this hip, insider sitcom about a comedian (Seinfeld playing Seinfeld) and his three Manhattan friends has expanded its appeal beyond a core audience of yuppie tastemakers. It's that rarity -- intelligent comedy that is funny enough for everybody...
...SEED: "The hardest part of this show is coming up with the ideas," says David. A Seinfeld premise is different from that of most other TV comedies; instead of a generic sitcom "problem" (Murphy's mother comes to visit; Roseanne hates Darlene's new boyfriend), Seinfeld typically starts with a small, recognizable life moment that causes outsize anguish. Says David: "I like something tiny that just expands...