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...slip back into it." And, according to a federal grand jury, he went out of his way to make certain she didn't. Last week details emerged about how Aramony, the former president of United Way of America, allegedly supported his then teenage mistress with funds siphoned through a spin-off company from the $3 billion charity he headed. Aramony's Sept. 13 indictment described how he sent her flowers, provided her with limousine rides, flew her to vacations, gave her use of a New York City condo, made out checks to her for "consulting," presented her with...
This long-legged quartet predicted that the Fox network drama Models Inc. would only further degrade their profession. How right they were. The Melrose Place spin-off, which premiered last week, portrays models not only as bubble- headed but, worse, as immensely unlikable. What we know of real supermodels -- of Kate and Linda and Christy -- is that they are a congenial lot. Their life seems to be one long slumber party as they giggle together, exchanging their joys and disappointments, their Marlboro Lights, their Isaac Mizrahi miniskirts. But the young women signed to Models Inc. are more fractious. They slap...
...Lassie will bark her way back into your heart, and Wyatt Earp will gallop across the wide screen. The Little Rascals, based on the old movie shorts that have become continually rerun TV artifacts, arrives in August. Then summer's end brings It's Pat, a Saturday Night Live spin...
When last we dropped by Melrose Place, in the summer of 1992, the show was brand new but already looked tarnished: it was a craven spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210, set in an L.A. apartment complex, where all the people were beautiful and all the plots recycled from daytime soap operas. After a slow start in the ratings, however, Melrose Place has become perhaps the hottest show on TV. College-age fans have made it a weekly viewing ritual; magazines do cover stories on its stars; the Fox network is already gearing up a spin...
...best Mary Tyler Moore scripts, "and expect somebody to have taken it down. And if people lost the key words, he'd glower murderously at them. More than one secretary was reduced to tears." Brooks could find script ideas anywhere, as Lloyd recalls from the days of the MTM spin-off Lou Grant: "We were at a story conference, and I didn't have an idea in the world. Jim proceded to pitch to me an incident involving surgery I had had for a thyroid cancer. I wrote it, and I thought: I even need Jim Brooks to dredge...