Word: sitcoms
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...hottest sitcom pair serve as friends and image makers...
...READY FOR SOME IRREVERENT, down-and-dirty TV satire, promises the new ABC sitcom THE JACKIE THOMAS SHOW. Created by TV's terror couple, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, the show revolves around the egotistical star (Tom Arnold) of a network sitcom. But it is surprisingly conventional and toothless. Staffers quake at the mere thought of a meeting with Jackie, but he turns out to be an easily manipulated dunce. The inside-TV humor is too familiar, as are the supporting players (Martin Mull, Alison LaPlaca). Even Arnold's performance has the whiff of a recycled Dave Thomas character from SCTV...
...BOTTOM LINE: An AIDS epic dazzlingly blends sitcom, the supernatural and the ghost of Roy Cohn...
...both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with so many other movies where guns go off all the time. It has the assured, affectless style of Twin Peaks remade as a sitcom...
...world -- the one of current Hollywood movies and TV shows -- is in disrepair. In its tatty bazaar, peddlers hawk worn-out notions as if the items held their former glamour. Hoary formulas (sci-fi, sitcom) near exhaustion, and a smoggy dusk shrouds the industry like crape...