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...streets, porno on the screens and larceny in the heart. And New York City women? Talk about pushy. Take Rhoda. Please. She was meant to be the quintessential New York woman, and she stood out like a kosher pickle on Minneapolis white bread. In the land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home there since Marlo Thomas perkily impersonated That Girl...
...idea of mating sitcom material with a surrealist style seems, at first glance, to have about as much promise of permanent delight as a pickup in a singles bar. And by the end of The Lonely Guy, even the film's best friends may feel that some aesthetic counseling is in order. Yet for a movie that once again takes up a matter made achingly familiar by contemporary song and story - the hardships and confusions of the single life - it offers some curiously arresting visions: the rooftops of New York City crowded with men howling the names of women...
...next thing I was going to read," he said, "was The Right Stuff. " Goodman also watched Syrian television, which to his surprise carried old John Wayne movies and episodes of the television sitcom Gimme a Break. Goodman found his guards' occasional kindness "unnerving," mixed as it was with humiliating, false assurances of imminent release...
...fall of 1972, ABC's That Certain Summer sensitively, if self-consciously, examined a homosexual relationship between a devoted father and a younger man. Yet it was not until the sitcom Love, Sidney, nine years later, that an apparent homosexual was depicted with some degree of calm as the title character in a series. In 1974, A Case of Rape with Elizabeth Montgomery was the first major TV drama to take a composed but telling look at that crime from the woman's point of view. The identical theme was sensationally exploited the same year with Born Innocent...
Cheers (NBC). Now in its second season, this barroom sitcom has found its saucy stride and, in Stars Ted Danson and Shelley Long, has created a mismatched pair that could give Tracy and Hepburn a run for their moxie...