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Take Craig Wilson's Recent Tragic Events, another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice...
...exception is UPN's The Mullets (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), a tastily tasteless sitcom about Dwayne and Denny Mullet, whose last name--and pretty much their entire character development--comes from their "business in the front, party in the back" haircuts. The season's least likely Peabody Award candidate, it's a good-natured celebration of American cheese--wrestling, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Girls Gone Wild videos--that pits Dwayne and Denny against their stepdad, a self-important, wealthy game-show host (John O'Hurley, who was the self-important, wealthy J. Peterman on Seinfeld). Co-creator Josh Weinstein says...
...hilarious The Simple Life (premiere date to be announced), which takes Paris Hilton (scioness of the Hilton hotel family) and Nicole Richie (daughter of singer Lionel) and plants them for a month on a farm in Arkansas. It's Green Acres verite, proving that any high-concept '60s sitcom not involving a genie is a reality show in the making. The two blonds are clearly no strangers to privation, having about 0.01% body fat apiece, but they soon find rural life harder than Pilates. Given $50 to buy groceries, they go over budget and plead for a break from...
...from show to show. It's the one-minute movie: mini-shows that will air during commercial breaks in two 30-second installments on succeeding shows. The first will air this Thursday, the opening half in the season premiere of Will & Grace and the conclusion during the new sitcom Coupling. In the first mini-movie, The Pussycat Dolls, Carmen Elektra plays a dancer who gets involved in a jewel heist. Ten mini-movies are already completed, with stars like Michael Richards and Tom Arnold. The executive producers are Paris Barclay and John Wells, who usually lends his talent to more...
...didn’t read about the college in a book or hear about it in school. Instead, Harvard first came alive to me as I was glued to my suburban Ohio console television set, watching Zach Morris and Jessie Spano take their SATs on the popular teenage sitcom Saved By the Bell. Zach, Slater, Screech and the gang tricked the stuffy admissions officer into admitting Jessie, only to realize over burgers and fries at the Max, that Harvard wasn’t the place for them...