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...Sweet It was Actor Art Carney was closely identified with the TV sitcom The Honeymooners, as our Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
...came to Harvard thinking that my priorities wouldn’t stray too far from what they had been in high school. I would be the model student, acing every paper, playing varsity tennis and keeping up my regular sitcom-watching schedule. When I didn’t make the tennis team, I went to my plan B—joining The Harvard Crimson and becoming one of the hard-core news writers. I did it at the time because to me it seemed like the thing to do. When the incoming managing editor told me freshman year that...
Bernie Mac is in two places at once. The film Bad Santa and the third season of his sitcom both debut this week...
THEORY NO. 2 Outside distractions. It's not just cable. With DVDs, video games and the Internet, your average guy has a lot more to do these days than stare at a sitcom. While there's no proof yet that these activities are eating into TV time, it makes sense: 18-to-24-year-olds, who Nielsen says are driving the decline, are among the most voracious consumers of these media...
...imitating F.D.R.), flourished on Broadway (where he was the original Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) and earned distinction in Hollywood (an Oscar for 1974's Harry and Tonto). But as Ed Norton, the "underground sanitation expert" and upstairs neighbor of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the primal sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney proved that a second banana could be the top. His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English. Carney's every move was an eccentric dance. He walked in a springy slouch, his thin frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest...