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...pastiche of antique moral codes and Populuxe decor. The new film is conflicted about its subject--it both derides and adores what it means to parody--and it's miscast at the top. Still, the Eve Ahlert--Dennis Drake script has a gentle heart to humanize its sharp sitcom...
DIED. GEORGE WYLE, 87, creator, along with producer Sherwood Schwartz, of one of TV's most whistleable tunes, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, the theme from the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island; of leukemia; in Tarzana, Calif. He wrote more than 400 other songs, including the Christmas classic The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...
...network's new comedy night, Tuesday, UPN is looking to "broaden its audience," which would usually be code for "get white people to watch." In this case it isn't code, because Ostroff came right out and said it: its first new Tuesday sitcom, "All of Us" - executive produced by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith and about a man, his girlfriend, his soon-to-be-ex-wife -tested extremely high, in her words, "with Caucasian audiences." (The upfronts are one of the few places outside a Klan or Nation of Islam meeting where you'll hear the word "Caucasian" uttered...
...about two brothers with a roofing business, huge poofy mullet haircuts and half a brain between them. Unfortunately, the clips themselves didn't incite the laughs the title did, but that won't keep me from checking it out come fall. You say you can't found a sitcom on a haircut alone? Tell that to Jennifer Aniston...
...other class-conscious sitcoms take a look at the wacky rich. In "Arrested Development," a wealthy, eccentric family gets into trouble with the SEC and starts to come apart at the seams. In the midseason "Cracking Up," a psychology student is assigned to live with a rich family, whose members turn out to be sociopaths, obsessives or just creepy. It's from Mike White, who created the fantastic 2001 "Pasadena" for Fox, and it seems basically like that soap opera's twisted-rich story rewritten as a comedy - let's hope it fares better the second time. Finally, there...