Word: sitcomic
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...summer home on Long Island to discuss the fall schedule. But Paley's dissatisfaction grew as he watched the network's fortunes decline. In a recent interview, he voiced disappointment that rival ABC had succeeded in wooing Lucille Ball, one of CBS's first TV stars, back in a sitcom this fall. "I think our people were stupid not to think of it first," he said. Age has begun to take its toll. Though in apparent good health, Paley has slowed down considerably and suffers from memory lapses. Yet friends describe him as still capable of wielding influence...
Those meetings with Lyolya, usually in front of the big Dom Igrushki toy store on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, sometimes seemed more like a TV sitcom than what they were and still are: an essential and sometimes perilous part of a Moscow correspondent's job. Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
...little when I left. For six months they wouldn't cast me in a play, and I was forced to perform in the campus cabaret." Poor, lucky Sigourney. For it was there she teamed up with Christopher Durang, who would soon torch off-Broadway with the blazing sitcom absurdism of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Says Durang, 37: "I'd written an anarchist musical called Better Dead than Sorry. Sigourney sang the title song while receiving shock treatment. It was the first time I got a sense of how charismatic...
...Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing a jig at the bad luck of his betters or revealing the winsome vulnerability of a lizard left too long in the sun, Louie ranks with Frank Burns of M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler Moore's Ted Baxter as one of sitcom's great no-goodniks. Without truckling, DeVito made the loathable lovable. "It was a feast for me," the actor recalls, "working with brilliant writers who put 'bons mots' (rhymes with Don Knotts) in my mouth. We were like a family; we never fought -- it was sickening...
...role of Kate in the West Coast production of Annie. Molly's promise as an actress, and Bob's search for better jazz bookings, brought the Ringwald family to Los Angeles and their San Fernando Valley home. She snagged a continuing role in Norman Lear's girls' school sitcom, The Facts of Life, but was cut after the first year. "I was devastated," Molly says. "But my mom kept saying it was for the best, and she was right. I didn't work for a year, which gave me a chance to grow up a lot." Good thing...