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...BOTTOM LINE: The most successful sitcom of the '80s makes a graceful exit...
That politics appears only to be television spectacle denudes it--dissolves it into the rest of the homogenized junk on the airwaves--no more than a music video, or a sitcom or a made-for-TV movie; just as easy to tune out, just as irrelevant to daily life. The language of Madison Avenue is the language of pollsters is the language of politics...
...cough. This season the number of new productions has shot up more than a third, from 28 to 38. Total attendance since Jan. 1 has been 13.4% higher than in the same period last year. The range of fare has been unusually broad, from tap dance to Ibsen, from sitcom to Shakespeare. But the biggest buzz is about the abundance of high-profile movie and TV stars who have returned to the risks and rigors of the live stage...
...impressed NBC enough to earn hima role in the pilot "Social Studies," thoughultimately the series did not get picked up.Recently Clark was offered another television rolein a local pilot to be filmed here in Boston.However, despite the success that comedians suchas Jerry Seinfeld and Richard Lewis have found inthe sitcom genre, Clark does not really see muchtelevision in his future...
...POWERS THAT BE (NBC, debuting March 7, 8:30 p.m. EST). Norman Lear tries for a comeback (after last summer's abysmal Sunday Dinner) with a sitcom about a dim-witted Senator. John Forsythe is amusing as a Reaganesque legislator, but the satire and supporting characters (imperious wife, nervous press aide) are broader than the Potomac...