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...Nielsen rating as well as an opinion poll, declined to criticize "a very popular television show." He praised Quayle's speech in a private call to the Vice President, but failed to adopt the message as his own. Throughout the improbable spectacle of a White House pitted against a sitcom character and her real-life defenders, there was a serious undercurrent. The growth in fatherless families, after all, is encouraged less by television than by welfare policies that punish poor mothers who marry -- policies that Bush and Quayle should change if they are serious about this subject...
JULIE CARLYLE IS THE STAR OF A NETwork TV variety show who marries a veterinarian, moves to Iowa and still manages to do her show every week from a local TV station. That is known as having it all. JULIE, a new ABC sitcom, doesn't have much of anything except Julie Andrews, who puts a little sparkle into the drab material. Her dedicated husband (James Farentino) tends to ailing heifers and brings home an injured dog to share their bed. His two kids at first resent their stepmother (sure, who wants a TV star for a mom anyway...
...BOTTOM LINE: This popular sitcom has good things going for it, but wit, style and subtlety are not among them...
...amazing string of four straight years as TV's top-rated series. During its peak season (1986-87), it was watched in 34.9% of all TV homes in the country. (This season's No. 1 show, 60 Minutes, could manage only 21.9%.) It sparked a revival of the domestic sitcom, a genre that had fallen into disrepair. (Fittingly, several other long-running comedies of the same generation -- The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains and Night Court -- are also saying goodbye this spring.) It initiated a healthy new attitude toward race on TV by building a show around...
Simmons constantly prospects for new ways to market the rap phenomenon. In the works at his TV and film company are The Johnson Posse, a sitcom Simmons describes as "Married . . . with Children in the projects"; The Clown Prince, a comedy for Tri-Star Pictures about a white youngster who grows up in a black ghetto and has trouble fitting in at a predominantly white college; and a syndicated radio network that will transmit hip-hop music via satellite to AM stations around the country. Earlier this year, Simmons made his first venture into print, teaming up with Jones and Time...