Word: normally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...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 grown-up 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...
...Sherman-Palladino wrote earlier for "Roseanne," and while "Gilmore"'s tone is much different, the honest, flaws-and-all mother-daughter relationship is familiar. "Roseanne" likewise has its DNA on "Normal, Ohio" (Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET, starting Nov. 1) - starring "Roseanne"'s John Goodman - which echoes that show'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...
...Phillip W. Hines, assistant professor of pathology, draws an analogy between cells and cars to explain how the cell tries to fight cancer. The disease tries to put the normal cell machinery on overdrive. The cell can respond by destroying itself or by putting on the breaks--stopping its movement through the cell cycle. Cancers try to disable p53 because it plays a key role in both of these cancer-fighting mechanisms...
...Under normal conditions p73 is not a professional tumor suppressor," he said. "But if we are smart enough we might be able to make it act like...