Word: normal
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Missouri race is now anything but normal. Immediately after Democratic candidate Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash, it appeared that the party's Senate hopes had been severely diminished...
Sherman-Palladino wrote earlier for Roseanne, which shares Gilmore's honest, flaws-and-all mother-daughter relationship. And Roseanne's John Goodman stars in Normal, Ohio, which echoes its predecessor's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner (That '70s Show) conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man (The Odd Couple without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show...
...Davis Show shacks up out of wedlock with a widower and his kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's Gilmore Girls was knocked up as a teen; the grownup star of Fox's Titus gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft divorced dad. On Fox's Normal, Ohio, Dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver, we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...
...want something that reflects their lives," says creator-star Christopher Titus, who based the series on his autobiographical one-man stage show Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding. "Sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional," he boasts in the pilot. "That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, Titus looks at how Titus has become his screwed-up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For Titus, family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners...
...Potassium, which is also found in bananas, has been found to be helpful in lowering blood pressure, in part because of its ability to maintain normal heart rhythm, water balance and muscle contractions in the body. Doctors estimate that more than 80 percent of Americans don't get their daily recommendation of 400 milligrams of potassium - a problem easily solved by drinking one 450-milligram glass of o.j. every...