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That could have been the mood on the Batman Returns set. It was chilly enough: 38 degrees F for the 12-hr. working days. Annette Bening, set to star as Catwoman, ducked out when she got pregnant, and Burton scurried to hire Michelle Pfeiffer. Anton Furst, who designed Batman but was not working on the sequel, died jumping off a roof and plunged the crew into melancholy...
...signed up for the military to "get responsible" after getting a high school girlfriend pregnant. But when he returned to Los Angeles, he drifted into crime. His homeys had stepped up their activities to robbery, credit-card fraud and even arson. Despite his musical ambitions, Marrow rejoined his crew and started making serious money. He says now of that period, "I thought I'd be a hustler for the rest of my life...
...mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby -- MURPHY CHOOSES LIFE! -- and scolded the fictional mother for getting pregnant in the first place...
...unwed mothers, though Murphy Brown had at least one important precursor. Molly Dodd, the neurotic single New Yorker played by Blair Brown in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, found herself pregnant two years ago, and the suspense revolved around which boyfriend was the father: the white bookstore owner or the black policeman (the law carried the day). Yet the revelation caused little stir: the show was tucked away on cable, and went off the air shortly thereafter. It took a Top 10 network series that will undoubtedly be around for years to grab the Vice President's attention...
...baby the old-fashioned way, and anyhow, men are jerks. With her high income, Brown seems a poor vehicle for examining the problem of children born without fathers. Yet she has more in common with the inner-city teenager than we might think. The 14-year-old gets pregnant as a way to give her life meaning. Murphy Brown and fortyish women like her want a tiny version of their nearly perfect selves to give their lives more meaning...