Word: sitcomic
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They present a sitcom study in contrasts, a political Odd Couple. He is cool; she is warm. He counts their pennies; she spends their dollars. She favors sleek high heels; he wears clunky wing tips. (One of her cardinal campaign rules is not to unpack in front of her husband, lest he see some new purchase.) His desk is as clean as a putting green; hers resembles a rummage sale of old papers. He is guarded; she is winningly open. She loves to gossip; for him, small talk is a foreign language. He is Greek Orthodox; she is Jewish...
...four years ago. For most of the first quarter, three of the country's top five movies were Disney's: Three Men and a Baby, which has grossed $160 million so far, Good Morning, Vietnam ($110 million) and Shoot to Kill ($30 million). On TV, Disney has a hit sitcom, The Golden Girls; two popular new cartoon shows, The Adventures of the Gummi Bears and DuckTales; the third-ranked game show, Win, Lose or Draw; and a reborn flagship program, The Disney Sunday Movie. At the three thriving Disney theme parks -- in California, Florida and Japan -- total attendance ballooned past...
...during network prime time. Though the Emmy-winning comedy The Golden Girls ranks No. 6, Disney has flubbed such efforts as The Ellen Burstyn Show and Side Kicks. But Disney is nothing if not persistent: its next offering, to start on CBS in the fall, is The Dictator, a sitcom about a deposed political strongman who sets up shop in a New York Laundromat...
...ranges from Werewolf, an oddly morose horror series, to The Tracey Ullman Show, a quirky half-hour of comedy sketches that qualifies as TV's most interesting near-miss. Fox has also scored a coup by acquiring It's Garry Shandling's Show, the shrewdly self-parodying cable sitcom, which is running on Fox after its initial airings on Showtime. The network's highest-rated show, 21 Jump Street, happens to be its best. A well-crafted, surprisingly intelligent police drama about a band of youthful cops who work undercover in high schools, the series has come up with...
Though the plot may be trite, the vibrant cast turns this sitcom-like melodrama into an hour's worth of truly enjoyable entertainment. In organizing Project Space 6, Weiner and Hanning wanted to inject some raw and new energy into Harvard theater. They did this by enlisting the talents of students who have had little or no dramatic experience. Providing the actors with a skeletal script, Weiner and Hanning let the performers project themselves into their characters, bringing a ring of authenticity to their roles...