Word: handing
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...When Amy Sherman"Palladino wrote "Gilmore Girls" (Thursdays, 8 p.m. ET), on the other hand, she "never set out to create an 'alternative' family." But it proved the best vehicle for the story she wanted to tell: "a mother-daughter relationship where they were more pals than mother and daughter." In this sweet hour-long comedy, 32-year-old single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) raises a 16-year-old daughter - you do the math - Rory (Alexis Bledel), who's more reserved and adult than mom. Lorelai, for instance, wears Daisy Duke cutoffs to Rory's first day in private...
...FFPF's definition of "family-friendly" sounds like a recipe for harmless pabulum (it calls, vaguely, for "uplifting" shows that won't embarrass or offend an "average" viewer). But it worked: "Gilmore" turns out to be neither crass nor cloying. On the one hand, it's unapologetic about its untraditional family unit - Lorelai made a mistake, but isn't condemned to a life of torture. On the other, it's practically radical to see a WB comedy about a smart teenage girl whose life doesn't revolve around...
...When I was first starting out, Bill Safire, another columnist at The Times, gave me some great advice...never start a paragraph with the phrase 'on the other hand,' because when you're writing for the Times, you're always going to make someone angry," Rich said. "You have to be true to yourself...
...first notes I played with the tape rolling at Fort Apache Studios were not good ones. I plucked at my bass as it I'd never seen it before. My hand had fallen asleep...
Describing her motivation behind one black-and-white print depicting her father sitting in his greenhouse (see below), glasses in hand, she says, "Basically, that's how I see him. He just spends a lot of time there cultivating flowers. That's what he wears on Saturdays. I've never really posed people for pictures...