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MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED VOTING BLOC Loretta, below right, and Linda Sanchez of California became the first sisters to serve together in Congress (the first brothers served together in 1853). The Sanchezes may share a house in Washington, an arrangement that would undoubtedly be adapted into a network sitcom...
...market is hot? NBC--whose $2.7 billion in ad revenue for last spring's up-front period dwarfed second place CBS's $1.8 million--raised some eyebrows early in October when it announced that it was adding two minutes to each episode of TV's top-rated sitcom Friends. But Jeffrey Zucker, president of NBC Entertainment, a division of General Electric, says the added minutes represent program time, not commercials. The aim is to make Friends run two minutes past the half-hour mark, pulling more viewers into the next show on NBC, the medical sitcom Scrubs. "This...
Knoxville has already scored decent roles in movies like Men in Black II and has signed a deal with Fox for a possible sitcom, so it's not really clear why a 31-year-old man with a wife and a daughter would want to do this to himself one last time. "A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart," said Knoxville in his Hollywood film-production office as he was shooting the last few scenes...
...movies, it will be produced through Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. Run by a tightly knit group of Sandler's buddies, the company has turned out several low-budget comedies starring his former Saturday Night Live colleagues. Happy Madison's television arm recently struck a deal to produce a sitcom for the WB network. Working with Revolution Studios, Sandler will serve as executive producer on next year's feature comedy Anger Management. Sandler was paid a reported $25 million for the movie, which co-stars Jack Nicholson. There's a very funny scene in the movie in which Sandler...
...movies like Dr. Strangelove. (TV worked more elliptically, through cold-war anxiety parables such as those on the Twilight Zone, which, by the way, returns this fall on UPN, hosted by Forrest Whitaker.) If a writer turned Beene's bomb-shelter scene into a bioterror scare in a sitcom set in the present, it wouldn't make it past the first-draft stage at a major network. Perhaps that's the hidden value of cultural nostalgia. It hints that the past was not better but worse than today, allowing us to exorcise forbidden thoughts about the present...