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...generally on the side of the angels ... It punctures lots of pompous fictions about how the world works." ROWAN WILLIAMS, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the animated sitcom The Simpsons, prompting the TV show's producers to invite him to lend his voice to an upcoming episode...
...Squad Actor Tony Randall, who died last month [MILESTONES, May 31], had a long stage and film career, but his defining role, as we noted, was portraying the fastidiously neat Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple. Shortly after the show made its debut, TIME gave it an enthusiastic review...
...seconds into Sex and the City, the HBO sitcom cleaned up so it can be rerun on TBS (starting this Tuesday), you notice something missing. It's not the sex; it's the samba. The opening credits are cut radically, bars of the Latin theme song snipped. What does a risque pay-cable show look like on basic cable? For one thing, shorter...
...Everyday Abnormality "Reconsidering Friends," James Poniewozik's analysis of how the hit TV series redefined the idea of normal family life, was right on target [April 26]. The message of Friends is that there is no "normal" anymore. This witty sitcom showed that there is the possibility of grace in the midst of what cultural conservatives disdainfully refer to as dysfunctional relationships. The grace is evident in the characters' unconditional love and acceptance of one another's foibles and downright annoying idiosyncrasies. The best thing about the show is not so much its humor but the way it depicts...
...having separate conversations - that's been true for 400 years - it's that comments such as the ones Cosby made could be used as bricks for different groups of blacks to wall themselves off from each other. That would be a shame. Right now, on Broadway, Cosby's erstwhile sitcom wife, Phylicia Rashad, is co-starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside one of the most successful current purveyors of hip-hop slang, rapper/would-be actor Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. When I saw the show, I thought there was something profoundly appealing about seeing two different generations of black entertainers...