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...course, if I were Robert Smigel, whose "TV Funhouse" on Comedy Central is an R-rated, and hilarious, version of the same concept, I'd get me a gun and look to make me some bunny lint, but who said life was fair? (Speaking of fairness, Fox did unveil one spankin'-new sitcom, "The Bernie Mac Show," a single-camera affair that I have to say seemed two notches smarter than I expected of yet another family sitcom for a standup comic...
...when networks unveil their fall schedules, you rate the big names, raise a critical eyebrow at the showmanship and secretly wish for stumbles. Last year, in the midst of Millionaire hype, Disney launched a PC game version of its hit network game show and trotted out Regis to promote it. But he was way out of his element. Rather than stop the show, he was swallowed up in it, obscured by all the sturm und drang of post-televisual entertainment...
...upfronts, which take place this week, are the New York City presentations where the broadcast networks unveil their fall schedules, mainly for the delectation not of the critics but of ad buyers, to whom they try to pre-sell advertising "up front," on the basis of what the networks annually promise will be the greatest season of public entertainment the world has known since the days of Aeschylus, and generally ends up with John Goodman playing a gay guy and trading insults with Orson Bean. Held in tony venues like Radio City Music Hall, the presentations involve elaborate stage presentations...
...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...
...fans like Vivienne Sworder, though, such details are of little interest. Her only concern is when Kinkade will unveil the next of the snowscapes with which she is so taken. The latest issue of The Beacon, the Kinkade Collectors' Society's newsletter, features one entitled Autumn Snow that is not yet part of her collection. "I'm looking to get that one very soon," she says...