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Like ads for the ESPNews channel, the promos for this show are much funnier than the product. While the best WB dramas (Felicity, Buffy and Dawson's Creek) shape teen angst into complex characters and sharp dialogue, Zoe doesn't get much beyond 10[cent] sitcom jokes. The idea of watching four non-vampire slaying Manhattan teenagers sounds appealing, but the show makes you realize how much of high school was down time, not worth committing to script. Zoe makes an effort with realistic teen dilemmas and some quirkiness, but the overall thinness leaves you wanting more Boy Meets World...
...acted as a consultant for a "women's" issue of the New Yorker. "I've gone from the supposed highest literary peak to a real working-class one," says Roseanne, "but I'm more excited about the Enquirer because people actually read it and the cartoons are funnier." The comedian says she plans an item on the 10 most beautiful women (none under size 14) and, possibly, something on JonBenet Ramsey. Says she, ever modest: "I've got that one all solved...
...trying to tell people some stuff about music and I got upstaged," he joked later. "They were funnier than I was, but it's not my job to be funny...
...read War and Peace." So we know Steve Martin is intelligent. Now we know he is intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation-defying musings on philosophers, paparazzi and the word...
Which leads to a central truth: there is no such thing as an interesting drunk--ever. Do not drink more than two glasses of wine, three at the most. After more than that, you think you are funnier and more charming than you are. I once sat next to New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan at a formal dinner and watched him consume three double Scotches, five glasses of red wine and three glasses of port, after which he got up and gave the after-dinner speech. The 6-ft. 4-in. Senator swayed above...