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...elemental part of the American lifestyle. The situation is not the university’s fault—no one has the “right” to a TV—and in fact it is students who are depriving themselves of the simple pleasures of the sitcom and the important if incomplete information disseminated nightly through the TV news filter. This is not only a problem because it creates crises like the one I experienced over spring break, but more importantly because it makes the Harvard bubble even more impenetrable and robs students of an invaluable setting...
...that other sacred summer institution, the low-brow extended-play sitcom, I will admit I have a special place in my heart for them. I certainly cherish smarter, subtler comedic works more than any gross-out bodily fluid showcase, but there’s something to be said for a movie (Old School and Meet the Parents immediately come to mind) that can make me laugh continuously for an hour and a half. That is an accomplishment that is rarely replicated in the independent film community and holds merit far beyond the average half-assed comic-book adaptation...
DIED. ROBERT PASTORELLI, 49, beefy film and stage actor best known for his role as the ever-present screwball house painter Eldin on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown; of an apparent drug overdose; in Los Angeles...
DIED. PAUL WINFIELD, 62, actor who brought an imposing demeanor and human-size emotions to roles ranging from Diahann Carroll's boyfriend in the 1960s TV sitcom Julia to Martin Luther King Jr. in the '78 mini-series King; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Raised in L.A.'s Watts section, he turned down a scholarship to Yale to pursue stage acting on the West Coast, where Sidney Poitier gave him his first film break in 1969's The Lost Man. He won an Oscar nomination for his role as a sharecropper father in the '72 film Sounder...
Like his hit CBS sitcom, Ray Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned. Welcome to Mooseport finds Romano in the role of Handy Harrison, a small-town plumber whose most ambitious plans involve buying a new pick-up. As Handy’s long-suffering girlfriend of six years, Sally, Maura Tierney does a great impression of Patricia Heaton, Romano’s similarly impatient TV wife. Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken...