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Like his hit CBS sitcom, Ray Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned. Welcome to Mooseport finds Romano in the role of Handy Harrison, a small-town plumber whose most ambitious plans involve buying a new pick-up. As Handy’s long-suffering girlfriend of six years, Sally, Maura Tierney does a great impression of Patricia Heaton, Romano’s similarly impatient TV wife. Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Happenings | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...would live in if we all got the jobs we wanted when we were 7: a cheerleader swaps places with a cowgirl, a fire fighter with a DJ. But the episodes generally end on an amiable, grass-is-always-greener note, as when a surfer trades with a sitcom writer and concludes, "As a writer, I'd be sad knowing that there's a lot of cool stuff going on in the world, and I'm sitting there in a room telling jokes." Likewise, Showtime's quirky Family Business (Fridays, 11 p.m. E.T.), about the family-run porn studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reality TV Goes To Work | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...addition to Lopez’s popularity for writing, producing and performing on his eponymous television sitcom on ABC, students in attendance pointed to Lopez’s role-model status for the Latino community at Harvard and beyond as reasons for their enthusiasm for his selection this year...

Author: By Yan Zhao, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diversity on Display | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

Really? The man who did an early stint writing for Chris Elliott’s groundbreaking sitcom “Get a Life,” not plugged in to the small screen? No, Kaufman reveals with a flashed smile and a clipped word after a moment of confusion. He does have a television, though he wouldn’t say he watches...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaufman, Gondry Give Pieces of ‘Mind’ | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...Keith is playing up the extreme elements of his personality, he may soon get to do it for an even wider audience. The networks are after him to do a sitcom. "I'm stalking him," says former NBC president Warren Littlefield, who is currently an independent television producer and one of several executives trying to develop a Toby Keith show. "He's a personality, he's a performer, and he's funny. Last time I checked, that's what makes for great television." Keith acknowledges he's tempted. "I'd want my show to be funny but emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: America's Ruffian | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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