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...Texas, is as hot and sticky as a locker room. I am on the hotel patio, waiting for the lineup for tonight's semifinal bouts to be posted, wondering how long we can stay in the saddle of this bucking bronco called Slam. "We" are the Los Angeles team--Thea Iberall, Poetri (yes, his name is Poetri), Jerry Quickley and I--four poets, linked by a love of words and a passion for competition. We are in Austin to sling verse and reap scores in the ninth--and largest--National Poetry Slam in history. Forty-five teams and 14 individuals...
...crime is less clear and the accuseddenies committing it, the role of a fair processis more important. "Tom" was accused of a crime hesays he didn't commit and required to withdraw fortwo years. He says he is frustrated by the AdBoard's role as judge and jury and theA...
...Thea Vidale, for example, is a big, boisterous comic with a lot of stage presence -- or, at least, presence over a lot of the stage. Unfortunately, her ABC sitcom, Thea, is a throwback to the broad, brackish family sitcoms of the Good Times ilk: streetwise sass drenched in sentimental mush. John Mendoza, who plays a newly divorced sportswriter in NBC's The Second Half, is a mellower, and less accomplished, performer, who is also defeated by tired gag situations -- the inept single guy who can't furnish an apartment or get a date without stumbling over his feet...
Young demographics are more important at ABC, which was No. 1 in the important 18-to-49 age group this season, but the family orientation will be ( stronger than ever. Among the configurations that will be explored in ABC sitcoms next fall: a widow trying to raise four kids (Thea), an unemployed electrician turned househusband (Joe's Life); a divorced mother of three (Grace Under Fire); and a retired boxer -- played by former heavyweight champion George Foreman -- with a wife, two kids and a job counseling troubled junior-high students (George...
...really psyched," Todd said. "We want tobe able to field a B-side this year since we onlyhad about five players who did not play on theA-side last year. We should have good depth...