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...simple answer is that a scandal gestating as long as Whitewater is bound to generate fresh subscandals to feed the ever growing appetite for drama. So convoluted is the scandal business that ethicsmeister Starr has hired his own ethics counselor, Sam Dash, which has in turn created its own spin-off controversy. The price for Dash's lingering aura of rectitude from his days as Watergate counsel--$3,200 weekly for eight hours of work--is almost as inflated as the $42,550 for 12 of Jackie O.'s ashtrays. Under questioning, Dash conceded that some of Starr's activities...
...Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns (1965), the role that resulted in a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. From 1979 to 1981 he played Carroll O'Connor's business partner in an All in the Family spin-off, Archie Bunker's Place...
WHILE THE BUDGET EQUIVALENT OF MELROSE PLACE reached a climax this week, a new installment in the spin-off drama, Default Lane, began filming. For those who hate suspense, here's a preview of the final scene: there's no chance the U.S. government will default on its debt, now or ever...
...think it looks sort of like 'A Different World; you know, that TV show," said Daniel N. Webb '96, referring to a "Cosby Show" spin-off from the late 1980s...
...present fantasy. We drive home the point that this is not real, and we tell children not to play karate at home." Some of Fox's kids' shows actually do have redeeming quality-Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs spouts Shakespeare and Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? is a cartoon spin-off of the geography-minded pbs show. But the Power Rangers and their imitators will continue to be the bane of parents' and educators' existence-until something new comes along...