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...Wilder (1981), the second Teardrops record, Cope took over sole songwriting duties, with mixed results. The bouncy "Passionate Friend," with its Beach Boys vocals and a trumpet line that sounds, I swear to God, like the theme song from the '70s sitcom "Love, American Style," somehow manages to avoid collapsing under the weight of its production. "The Great Dominions," on the other hand, is pleasantly ethereal but never gains momentum. Think of it as Cope's "Justify My Love...
SATIRE ON TELEVISION, CONTRARY to George S. Kaufman's famous dictum, is what opens on Saturday night. After a week of slogging through the sitcom swamp, by the weekend TV seems increasingly ready to kick back, relax and make snide fun of itself. Saturday Night Live is still flourishing after 17 years on the air, while In Living Color is a highly rated fixture on Fox's Sunday-night schedule. Two more sketch-comedy shows have, with little fanfare, sneaked onto the Fox schedule this fall. One, The Edge, is a fitfully amusing but rather juvenile SNL knock-off that...
...Quayle is that it serves the purposes of one of America's greatest entrepreneurs: Murphy Brown TV series creator Diane English. Last week's season opener, pumped up by weeks of publicity, drew an enormous 44 million viewers to a special hour-long episode. Quayle's rebuke of the sitcom for supposedly glamourizing single moms was challenged by such scripted scolding from star Candice Bergen as, "Perhaps it's time for the Vice President to recognize that families come in all shapes and sizes...
...Tuesday morning, September 22, and I flipped on the TV to the "Today" show, as I do every morning. To my disbelief, one of the anchors was interviewing an African-American woman who had hosted a viewing party for the season premiere of the sitcom "Murphy Brown." But this was no ordinary viewing party, for along with this woman and other African-Americans (including some single mothers) was none other than Vice President Dan Quayle...
...Studs shows how eager people are to reduce their romantic lives to salacious gag lines, the syndicated That's Amore demonstrates how adept some folks are at turning marriage into sitcom material. Under the guiding hand of a dapper Italian host named Luca, couples restage their marital spats as if they were auditioning for a spinoff of Married . . . with Children ("You are ; the boss of nothing!" "Where were your brains -- your rear end?"). At the end of each episode, the audience selects a victor. But it matters little: the prize in either case is a "second honeymoon," so the couple...