Word: sitcoms
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...affair you had with your father when you were in your 20s. In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly comes to a realization about her homosexuality and begins to take a few hesitant baby steps out of the closet and toward getting a life...
...hate that term 'in the closet,'" says Ellen DeGeneres, the aforementioned sitcom star whose all-pants wardrobe and sometimes awkward chemistry with male ingenues was provoking curiosity from fans and reporters long before her sexuality became a minor national obsession. "Until recently I hated the word lesbian too," she continues. "I've said it enough now that it doesn't bother me. But lesbian sounded like somebody with some kind of disease. I didn't like that, so I used the word gay more often...
...there are no losers, since Paramount gets control over domestic distribution of the comet movie Deep Impact, another joint venture to be produced--but not directed--by Spielberg. Meanwhile, the DreamWorkers should work on developing Spielberg's psychic abilities. Maybe they could have skipped all that trouble over the sitcom Ink and held off the splashy announcement about their dream studio at Playa Vista, where ground has yet to be broken...
...sick rendition of art imitating art imitating life. As usual, the setting was seedy and the cast of characters--from pot-bellied sheriffs to pouty chainsmoking whores--left me wriggling uneasily in my La-Z-Boy recliner, eager to switch my mood along with the channel back to sitcom simplicity...
...background of victim and suspect could not be more different. Cosby, 27, was the son of a cultural icon whom many Americans felt they knew as part of his father's sitcom family, only to discover that the real-life son led a quieter yet deeply inspiring life. Markhasev came to the U.S. at age 10. After a start in a gifted-students program, he drifted in and out of schools in Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Orange County, picking up the nickname "Pee-wee," for a purported resemblance to Pee-wee Herman. Eventually, Markhasev found...