Word: theo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...male sperm is sterile. But listen. England's green and pleasant land is still surprisingly intact. In P.D. James' THE CHILDREN OF MEN (Knopf; $22) the country is ruled by a dictator who has canceled most civil liberties. But the middle class still prospers, and Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries...
...Theo Huxtable graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in psychology. The large and loving family gathered: the plot's only crisis had something to do with whether Theo could find enough tickets to the ceremony for all the friends and neighbors and family who had assembled to hug one another and make fond jokes. Dr. Huxtable (Bill Cosby) was goofy with pride. He had a flashback to the time some years before when Theo announced he wanted to forget about school and get a job: Dr. Huxtable, stern and loving, laid down the law. And then...
...stick around for years, with only occasional cast changes to accommodate stars who want to get into movies. But kids have a bad habit of growing up. Anyone tuning in after a few years' absence to this week's final episode of The Cosby Show may get a shock. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a junior-high student when the series began, is graduating from college. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), once a pudgy preteen, is in college too, and has weathered a broken engagement. Cute little Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) has ceded the spotlight to a passel of even cuter, littler kids...
...show was an amiable, unpretentious comedy that reflected the humor, tastes and ego of its star, Bill Cosby. The hourlong episode that concludes its run is entirely typical. The plot is as flimsy as ever: Theo is preparing for his college commencement, and Dad wants to invite more people than there are tickets for. This requires Theo to get on the phone to scrounge up more tickets, while the family exchanges wisecracks about the last time Dad brought too many people to a graduation (he set up lawn chairs for the overflow...
...among TV's best family shows -- was that while it was packed with kids, it never showed much empathy for them. Every childhood problem, adolescent crisis or family dispute was refracted through Dad's eyes, perceived from a grownup's sardonic -- and often sentimentalized -- perspective. In the last episode, Theo's graduation is just another trial for Dad to bear. When Denise calls long-distance to tell the family she is pregnant, the sequence is mainly about how Dad doesn't get a chance to talk to her because everybody else hogs the phone...