Word: susane
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...Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.); Meredith E. Bagby '95, an advisor to presidential candidate H. Ross Perot; David Wilhelm, former chair of the Democratic National Committee; and Susan Weld, the wife of Gov. William F. Weld '66, are among speakers scheduled...
...this is a problem was dramatically illustrated when, on the eve of the G.O.P. convention, family values keynoter Susan Molinari, 38, was outed as a former pot user. "Mustang Susan," as she was soon dubbed, quickly trotted out the "youthful-experimentation" defense, an option not available to vice-presidential short-lister Connie Mack, whose shot at the ticket can't have been helped by news that he was still lighting...
When the NBC sitcom suddenly Susan debuts along with most other new network series next week, it will be clear that the show's star Brooke Shields has been kept exceedingly busy. During the course of the 22-min. premiere episode, Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further...
Outstanding comedy Suddenly Susan does not seem to be. But no one can fault NBC for lack of valiant effort. Dissatisfied with the original pilot for Susan, which had Shields playing an editor of romance books, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield abruptly traded in its creator for producers he thought would make the show more Gen X friendly. Changes required an almost complete recasting this summer. "At the end of the day it was good," said Littlefield to USA Today of the first pilot. "But we wanted great...
...stars than other things, and they found out later that no person or group of people can carry a show alone. If you don't deliver with that first episode, audiences won't come back, no matter who the star is." Steve Peterman, a new executive producer on Suddenly Susan, agrees. "If you're writing a play, you get to take it out of town and try it out. You don't have that luxury on television, especially now that there are more than three networks and no more captive audiences. You have less time to find out what your...