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...network's executives like to refer to it as the "Fox edge" or the "Fox attitude." It encompasses everything from the brassy bad taste of Married with Children to the tabloid grittiness of Cops. Fox has been willing to take chances on ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust) and others almost too good to be true (The Simpsons). If the young audience hooked on Fox signature hits like Beverly Hills, 90210 has had little patience for more sophisticated efforts like The Ben Stiller Show or Tribeca, well, that's the price...
Daddy Dearest, a slightly smarter sitcom about a psychiatrist whose father moves in with him, might be termed Transitional Fox. Casting angst-ridden comic Richard Lewis as the shrink is the sign of a show aiming for a more adult level of relationship comedy. But pairing him with Don Rickles (who barges into his son's group-therapy session to shout racial insults at everybody) puts us squarely back on the Fox buzz...
...Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...
...Cosby is an entertainment genius. Because he was the star of a hugely popular sitcom on NBC, reporters accept the idea that he's qualified to run a TV network. After all, the man now running NBC, Robert Wright, is new to show business and uniformly derided by those who work with him. What entertainment wizardry has Cosby wrought since Cosby? He has made two movies that bombed; a game show, You Bet Your Life, that bombed; and a didactically uplifting sitcom, Here and Now, that bombed...
...medium so concerned with "family values," TV has been treating the family pretty badly of late. With rare exceptions (notably ABC's Roseanne), sitcom clans are stitched together with baling wire and bad jokes. Serious family dramas (Family, A Year in the Life) have all but disappeared from prime time, and the few recent offerings have been too distracted by other matters -- skewering small-town life in Picket Fences; cheerleading for the rights of autistic children in Life Goes On -- to pay much attention to the way families really interrelate. In this context, Laurel Avenue, an HBO mini-series airing...