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They give us life, we give them soap-on-a-rope. Yep, Father's Day is here again. Brookstone, which purveys titanium ear-hair trimmers and anti-snore nasal dilators, among other innovative gifts, commemorated this year by ranking sitcom pops' earning power. The company used the most recent salary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and human-resource firms to determine the yearly salaries (in 1999 dollars) of 25 of America's TV breadwinners. The Top 5 and Bottom...
...speaker in My Country, the first song, is an oldster reminiscing about the dead old days of watching an antiseptic world on black-and-white TV ("We got comedy, tragedy/Everything from A to B"); he might be Pleasantville's sitcom dad, now neck high in self-pity. The next tune, Shame, is in the head of a rich coot ranting about the young woman (and the gun) he needs to be happy. The third song, I'm Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left...
...duties for the opening episodes of CBS's faltering Chicago Hope (the one show he had ceded to a team of writers) and creating two new shows (Ally for Fox and Snoops, a P.I. series for ABC), but nearly every network is copying him--having just about abandoned the sitcom, they're trying out his surrealism-specked, hour-long dramedy format. Basically, if you don't like Kelley, you'd better buy a good cable package. "It is a little frightening," says Kelley, 43, laughing...
DIED. DANA PLATO, 34, child star of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes; of an apparent drug overdose; at the home of her fiance's parents; in Moore, Okla. Plato, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, was arrested in 1991 for robbing a video store. Her onscreen siblings Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges have also had run-ins with the law since the hit series was canceled...
...Double Platinum, in which she plays a would-be singer struggling to come to terms with parental abandonment, her acting has become more assured. Her performance seems natural and without visible wires, and her character's moods have far more resonance than the carefully managed sentiments of her sitcom...