Actress Melanie Moore discusses playing the Scout in Aaron Sorkin s adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" before the show comes to the Bushnell in Hartford.
families a lot more like the waltons and a lot less like the simpsons. huh? we go to a completely bizarre period of time in 1992 when a sitting president is raging against a sitcom. they have dealt with politics. they have dealt with popular culture. they ve dealt with all kinds of issues of racism, of sexism. don t ask me, i m just a girl. ha ha! ha ha! right on, say it, sister. it s not funny, bart. millions of girls will grow up thinking this is the right way to act. they have found a way to talk about everything that s going on in our lives through the filter of the simpsons. them immigrants. they want all the benefits to living in springfield, but they ain t even bothered to learn themselves the language. yeah, those are exactly my sentimonies. i think one of the governing things that s happening with the simpsons is a distrust of anyone who tells us we should trust them and doesn t earn that
got tired of talking about real stuff. if the good lord provided us with berries, i think we ought to eat them. there was a longing for a simpler time when it didn t seem like there was so much anger and contentiousness, when people weren t so mad at each other. during last season the waltons caught on. good night, john boy. good night. this year there will be more nostalgia and wholesome family drama. now that dinner is over, let s try out the piano. oh, good. i am taking requests. sunday monday happy days i created happy days not what a family really was. i thought it would be good if there were some families that didn t get divorced. you guys are really it wasn t by accident everybody on happy days hugged each other. it wasn t by accident everybody in the family ate at the same time at the same table. it was a sweet, tender show. in the vein of american graffiti. looking back on the era of the 50s with a certain affection. haaay! abc want
shot. that s a series. shamele, shamozle hossenfere incorporated. tuesday night between 8:00 and 9:00 is called the death spot, death to any program that dares to go head-on against abc s happy days and laverne & shirley. laverne & shirley was one of the few sitcoms that debuted as number one. the absolute top number one show this season is laverne & shirley. a seemingly harmless but essentially brainless exercise in adolescent silliness. you have to go all the way back to i love lucy to get the same sort of slapstick and physical comedy. we never thought about its importance, except that, you know, it was two girls trying and the value of friendship. it must have something going for it. i don t rodeo-do-do. you rodeo-do-do. i don t rodeo-do-do. they couldn t say sex.
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