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...been almost a month since Ellen DeGeneres brought herself and her television sitcom alter ego out of the closet...
...frenzy surrounding that television situation comedy starts all sorts of questions festering in my head: How would people have reacted if the spirit Major Nelson who stumbled upon in the in the pilot episode of "I Dream of Genie" ended up being gay? Is the open homosexuality of a sitcom protagonist really the kind of cultural benchmark that merits a lead New York Times editorial? Is the decision of the people behind one television series a sign of the New American Openness...
Right off the bat, Anderson confirms the rumors, and not without a modicum of enthusiasm. He's more than happy to tell me that a Reubens show is in the works, and that the show will probably be a half-hour sitcom. At the earliest, it would be a 1997 -'98 mid-season replacement, he offers, but he can't say much beyond logistics. He explains that "the project is in its embryonic stages," and as much as he'd like to tell me more about it, at this point there's very little...
...shows the network aired were in the works before she arrived. Still, that hasn't stopped the Hollywood boo birds. She has been criticized for everything from poor scheduling during the May sweeps to giving only grudging approval to the network's one mid-season success, the Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man. (Tarses admits she had problems with a first draft of the script but insists she was a solid backer of the show by the time it was finished...
...world with our television programs, with our movies and so forth." Fox Network, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has long been high on the list of offenders. As early as 1989, Robertson's watchdogs were calling for a boycott of companies that advertised on the raunchy Fox sitcom Married...with Children...