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DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday...
Upon opening October 3rd's Crimson, an article entitled "Sitcom Schizophrenia Seizez HRDC" caught my eye. I read the article carefully, so as not to jump to any conclusions. There is no mention of the mental illness schizophrenia in the article itself, only in the headline. The article dealt with a play about a family some of whose members have imaginary friends...
...hipper talk shows last week in what appeared to be the coyest exercise in trial ballooning since Colin Powell's book tour. Her new comedy CD, Taste This, was the ostensible reason for DeGeneres' visits with David Letterman, Rosie O'Donnell and Conan O'Brien, but the sitcom star reserved her vigor for teasing--and testing--audiences with what has become the Grand Question of the TV season: Will Ellen Morgan, the sneaker-loving, jewelry-avoiding bookstore manager that DeGeneres plays on her ABC series Ellen, soon realize that for her, the world will hold only Ms. Rights...
...possibility has already sparked censure from the religious right and clamorous support from homosexual activists primarily because Ellen Morgan would be the first gay lead character ever on TV. Disney, the show's producer, and ABC remain silent on the sitcom's plans. All the network will say is that it has yet to see a script with a lesbian story line. Some industry executives speculate, however, that the network leaked the notion of outing Ellen to test advertiser reaction. DeGeneres has reportedly never been comfortable with the dating subplots of her TV vehicle, and now that rerun rights have...
...robbed the act of any courage." But then Ellen, a onetime Top 10 show that plummeted to 39th in the ratings last season, has never been marked by bold confidence. Aimless and conceptually muddled from the outset, when it debuted as These Friends of Mine in March 1994, the sitcom has become so creatively stultified that a controversy over homosexuality is truly the least of its problems...