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...period between appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing. Last week DREW CAREY signed a contract with Hyperion publishers allegedly worth seven figures. (It's probably just coincidence that Disney owns both Hyperion and ABC, which airs Carey's 1 1/2-year-old sitcom.) JENNY MCCARTHY had been on MTV for just two years when her book was announced. JON STEWART's talk show was canceled, yet he too will be between covers. But don't start making room on your bookshelf just yet for all these would-be TV authors. Remember Rosie O'Donnell's reportedly...
...virtual American family has suffered a real death. The feelings will be--and already are--peculiarly complicated. When I first heard the news on CNN, I suffered a momentary mental lag, an instant of ontological puzzlement: Had a human being been slain, or a sitcom character? How was Dr. Huxtable--Bill Cosby, rather--going to handle this one? How would he break such searing news to Phyllicia Rashad, his TV wife, and how could the tragedy ever be resolved in under 30 minutes...
...inexplicable connect-disconnect of art and life, the name that probably came to mind for most viewers was Theo Huxtable, the only son, who was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner in Bill Cosby's tremendously popular 1980s sitcom. For more than a decade the Huxtables were America's first family and Bill Cosby was everyone's dad. It was almost natural, however, to confuse real and imagined identities, for Cosby had modeled his television family on his own: a brilliantly accomplished wife, four assertive daughters and one diffident but charming son. The Huxtables were warm, cuddly, comfortable, now and then...
...country mourned with Bill Cosby because people felt they had known his son through his show. Ennis Cosby, however, was never part of a sitcom, even if his life had helped inspire one. The victim was the real son of the real Bill Cosby, whose real family was in true sorrow and mourning. And while art may hold up a mirror to life, it offers only an imperfect reflection. The story of Bill and Ennis Cosby, for the most part invisible to the public, was of a richer texture, more complicated and problematic, with real joy, with real pain, with...
...message, one that will change your life forever, "the feeling," Bill Cosby described in 1987, "of your child going out to play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens...