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Few bright spots for season
It’s time once again for the net
works to bombard TV audiences
with their best prospects for the
new fall lineup. There’s something
for everyone from a show about
teen models to a family with a spe
cial son. There are a few bright
spots, but most never should have
seen the light of day.
It’s understandable the net
works are trying to entice a diverse
audience, but is it too much to ask
that shows be of more than medi -
ocre, or even poor, quality? The
new shows offered this year are
even depressing to discerning
couch-potatoes.
While ABC has some real
stinkers, they also have the best
new show this season — “Life Goes
On." The show is about a family’s
everyday life and their attempt to
mainstream their 18-year old son
with Down’s Syndrome into a
public school. Chris Burke (Corky),
who has Down’s Syndrome, gives a
convincing performance as a
unique, loveable young man with a
strong will, parallelling his own
personality.
“Living Dolls,” a quasi spinofTof
“Who’s the Boss,” is ABC’s worst
effort. It’s about four teen models
who live in New York. The girls are
annoying pests who grate on the
viewers’ nerves. The only audience
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berty-stneken females, the same
audience that likes Bon Jovi.
“Living Dolls" gives sitcoms a bad
name.
CBS has the most imaginative
sitcom — ‘The People Next Door.”
Jeffrey Jones (“Beetlejuice") stars
as a cartoonist whose imagination
comes to life, much to his new
wife’s (Mary Gross) chagrin. With
this mixture you have an enter
taining show and u very strung-out
character.
All is not well in CBS’s “Peace
able Kingdom,” however, which
stars Lindsev Wagner (“Bionic
Woman") as the director of the fic
tional Los Angeles County Zoo.
Wagner’s character takes on the
tough task of straightening every
thing out at the zoo and main
taining her own personal zoo at
home — her three children and one
pet seal.
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was the last time she wanted me to
drive her to the drug store to res-
The adolescent daughter would
rather spend time with Mom at the
zoo than at home watching MTV
and trying out the latest shade of
Debbie Gibson-endorsed Natural
Wonder lipstick. She also asks how
Mom’s day has been and if she
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“Sister Kate," NBC’s sitcom ef
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orphanage The jokes aren’t that
funny, only one of the six “ador
able” kids is even cute and it’s not
terribly original either. Take the
“Barney Miller" spinoff “Pish,"
subtract a wise cracking policeman
and his wife, add a wise-cracking
nun, and you have basically the
same show.
The networks have given us
quantity without much quality. Go
ahead and check out some of those
shows you’ve been curious about,
but don’t waste your time on the
stinkers mentioned above. Of
course, you can always rely on your
old favorites.
Leigh Burrell it a junior adver
tising major with a minor in couch
potatoism.
A review of “Cookie" starring Peter
Falk. Directed by Susan Sei
delman. A Lon mar film rated R
Now playing at Georgia Square.
By JOHN DONNELLY
Contributing Writer
Since the birth of the industry,
Hollywood has given women the
short end of the stick when it
comes to making movies.
Susan Seidelman, the most sue
ceasful of the current handful of
commercial female directors,
proves women can make movies as
well or as badly as men.
Seidelman’s latest film “Cookie”
solidifies the snappy, neatly clut
tered style that gave her a hit a few
years back with “Desperately
Seeking Susan." “Cookie" also fur
thers the emergence of a new cat
egory of kitsch-filled screwball
comedy.
“Cookie" borrows from (and out
does) Jonathon Demme’s “Married
to the Mob.” Emily Lloyd plays the
gum-chewing, attitude-brimming
title character, who’s trying to get
to know her dad, mafia boss Peter
Falk Falk, recently released from
a long prison term is trying to start
a new life with Cookie’s mother
(Dianne Wiest).
The acting is great all around.
Exaggeratedly-Italian looking
character actors keep popping up
(including the ever-evil Jerry
Lewis as a slimy mafioso), playing
comically-twisted types rather
than dramatic characters. Emilv
Lloyd as “Cookie,” like Madonna’s
■ MOVIE REVIEW
“Susan,” is a would-be bad girl
whose most rebellious act is
jumping the subway turnstile.
Against the backdrop of sleazy
mafia types, Cookie appears like a
sexy, but innocent, matinee-serial
heroine. The Perils of Cookie.
Actually that’s not too far ofF
track. This new category of films is
the grown-up equivalent of Sat
urday morning cartoons. These
films (including “Something Wild”,
“Mamed to the Mob”, “Desperately
Seeking Susan”) hark back to the
classic screwball comedies
(“Bringing Up Baby", “Monkey
Business", etc.), updating the
humor and adding a dimension of
pop-cultural literacy.
In “Cookie," Seidelman creates a
world of colorful, multi-genera
tional kitsch. Cookie’s leather
jacket (with a mustachioed picture
of Madonna on the back—elle a
chaud au cul!) looks as silly (or
normal) os her mom’s pink, Eva
Gabor-style bathrobe. It’s a world
in which Cookie can dress like a
slut without fear of harassment.
As a screwball comedy, “Cookie"
succeeds It doesn’t attempt the
“female perspective" of “Susan" (or
if it does, it’s too weak to be signifi
cant), so it seems fluffier. Nor does
it have the bizzare originality of
John Waters’ “Hairspray." But it
moves along at a nice pace, pro
vides at least five genuine, audible
laughs and contains nothing an
noying Hike a message or weak
character development).
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