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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, September 22, 1998
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New sitcoms jump into fall season
Networks provide variety in premieres
By Frazier Moore The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Life, as we all know, is a process, a journey that prepares you for the great beyond: A sitcom starring you as the person you used to be before you scored your TV deal.
This is something Ray Romano knows well, having enshrined his former life as a Long Island family guy in the hit comedy Everybody Loves Raymond.
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Jerry Seinfeld, awash in millions from the sitcom where he played a stand-up comic trying to wangle a sitcom deal, knows it too. Ditto, Roseanne. And a few seasons ago, The Mommies sure tried.
Now Boston barmaid-turnedcomic Sue Costello is seeking her
own push hereafter with the auto-
biographical sitcom *Costello*, which
premiered on Fox last Tuesday.
And John DiResta, a real-life New
York City transit cop turned stand-
up comedian turned sitcom hopeful,
will play a transit cop on *DiResta*
Mondays on UPN starting Oct. 5.
The lesson from this is clear: Live each day as if it were an episode of a sitcom starring you as yourself where you're up against Drew Carey.Someday, sweetie, you might be.
The 1998-99 season officially begins this week, ushering in 16 of the total crop of 36 new series. But before you stress out at the thought of catching each premiere, remember there's much to learn from the networks' fall offerings — without even having to watch.
—Lesson: If your children's mother should fly the coop, do not despair. It means you can hire a sexy younger woman who will
**Lesson:** Life is a cosmic quota you must meet . . . or else. The hero of ABC's *Cupid* insists he must romantically link 100 couples before he can return to Mount Olympus. On Fox's *Brimstone*, cop-gone-to-heil Peter Horton is sent back up to Earth, where redemption awaiens if he can recapture 113 fugitive souls.
gladly tend to your offspring and potentially — wink, wink — you, too. Divorce or widowhood? No prob! ABC's "Two Of A Kind and Fox's Holding the Baby erase all doubt.
■ Lesson: The show must go on — except when it must not. Recently Fox snuffed Hollyweird, a creepy-crawly whodunit, before it ever drew a breath. This follows in the tradition of last season's *Rewind*, a Fox sitcom starring Scott Balo, similarly yanked before its premiere.
- Lesson: You can go home again, whether as a big success the young software tycoon of WB's Hyperion
And, of course, you can leave home. Escaping her parents, the comely eponym of WB's Felicity bolts clean across the continent for college in New York City.
*Boy*) or a failure (Faith Ford as CBS' broke, divorced Wagley Winters).
But don't try to make your home in the 'burbs. As the gated subdivisions of ABC's The Hughleys and Fox's Living in Captivity demonstrate, the only menace greater than people who are different from you is those who aren't.
■ Lesson: With the exception of the gay leading man on Will & Grace and the promiscuously nice title character of Conrad Bloom (both on NBC), males on sitcoms are likely to be infantile louts.
And even a man holding the nation's highest office can be an oaf, according to The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer. A screwball exercise in revision history, this UPN comedy exposes Abraham Lincoln as a philandering buffoon. Imagine such behavior in a president!
Oscar-winner accents talent with modesty
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A trailer fit for a movie queen was waiting for Meryl Streep when she arrived in Ireland last summer to begin shooting a low-budget film.
It was a massive, ugly aluminum thing, fully equipped and noticeably larger than the trailers assigned each of the five other actors.
Streep made a mental note.
By week's end, the trailer was gone, replaced by a more modest one.
"That's pure Meryl," says Pat O'Connor, director of the forthcoming Dancing at Lughnasa. "She's so likable, she's so lacking in fussiness. That trailer bothered her."
There are times when Streep acts like a 49-year-old soccer morn-
who has stumbled into a career as one of the most revered actors of her generation, picking up 10
A academy
Award nominations, two
Oscars,
a
Tony and an
Obie.
"People think I know something that I don't know," she says. "They see me as not who I really am. It's like I'm now sort
Streep: Known for losing herself in her movie roles.
of emeritus on some level, you know? Like Stella Adler. But I don't know anything! And very quickly on they realize this."
Ask about her craftsmanship,
and you are met with puzzle.
"Look, I really don't know how people act," she says. "I feel like I'm just sneaking by a lot. I have great respect for other actors and really don't know how they do it. I really don't. It's wonderful when you see it done right—and that's what I crave, but I don't know how people light upon that truth."
This is, after all, Meryl Streep confessing to cinematic ignorance.
"I think sometimes she takes herself by surprise," O'Connor says, laughing. "She can vanish into a role so far that when she resurfaces, she doesn't know what happened!"
Going deep is a big part of Streep's reputation. She studied both Polish and German for three
months to do a scene in Sophie's Choice.
But Carl Franklin, director of her latest film, *One True Thing*, says Streep's ability is not about just being ready.
"She is someone who goes through all the preparation, but I think we're talking about something beyond that, too," he says. "There's a gift going on. She's blessed."
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To that, the actress just laughs. There are, she insists, no geniuses in the Streep household, where she is the working mother of four and wife of 20 years to sculptor Donald Gummer.
"It very rarely happens that I meet someone new without them already having an opinion about me," she says. "I can see them running through the reel when they meet you."
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