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Whether you love Lucy or not, you can’t leave her-or she won’t leave you, at any rate-for she’s part of the language now, part of our autobiographies. Lucy is referenced in contemporary poetry-a cousin shows up wearing “an elevated `I…
Before the action must come the lights and the camera.That is a truism to which both Count Dracula and the first queen of TV comedy would have subscribed wholeheartedly. After all, they shared an aversion to bad lighting and a…
Of course we still love Lucy. But we love Ethel, too. Ethel the loyal. Ethel the brave. Ethel the strong. Ethel who also wrapped chocolates. Ethel who helped steal John Wayne’s footprints from Grauman’s Chinese theater. Ethel who wept copiously…
Drew Carey Text: What’s all this Lucy fuss? Lucy this, comedy genius that, blah blah blah. William Freakin’ Frawley, man! Fred Mertz! That’s what I’m talking about. Study his nuanced portrayal of the balding, aged, big-city landlord. The Concerned Friend:…
Restrictions on the media during the Gulf War left journalists feeling as though they had received a collective slap in the face from the Pentagon. So it’s no surprise that they have embarked on a campaign to convince the people…
This is politically incorrect but funny. My friend Sherry Spiegel cruised me through Los Angeles some years back, following (at my insistence-Sherry is far too classy for this kind of activity) the Map of the Stars. This particular map took…
While I don’t want to be too flip about TV’s continuing coverage of America on Alert, America Fights Back, America United, America’s New War or The War on Terror, I think it’s time to ruminate on some of what has…
Overall TV viewership levels for the first week of the 2001-02 season increased an estimated 3 percent to 5 percent over the previous two years. Network researchers David Poltrack at CBS and Larry Hyams at ABC estimated that overall HUT…
The media and the Pentagon are sharply at odds over what rules should govern news coverage of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism.Pentagon bureau chiefs for the major broadcast networks, cable news channels and print media met with military officials…
Tahiti, anyone?Keeping “Survivor” contestants out of harm’s way has apparently taken on new meaning. Internet fan sites tied in to the “Survivor” rumor mill are rife with speculation about the site of “Survivor IV,” set to debut on CBS in…