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Did liberal-bashers cost Garofalo her sitcom?
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The cold wind of McCarthyist blacklist censorship takes down another "artist" for espousing her views... Is the ghost of Sen. Joe McCarthy alive and well in Hollywood? That is certainly on the minds of many outspoken liberals in Tinsel-town these days. The latest conspiracy theory focuses on the just-announced axing by ABC of very vocal anti-Iraq war activist Janeane Garofalo's new sitcom, ''Slice o' Life.'' Look for her next one, "Out o' Work". Though the alphabet network had given Garofalo and Universal Television a thumbs up on the show for next season, network execs changed their minds, telling Daily Variety and other industry outlets it was ''the direction of the series story line'' that led to the dumping of ''Slice''âjust days before the show's pilot was scheduled to be taped in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...and the fact that we're a bit adverse to flushing lots o' money down a toilet. A source close to Garofalo tells this column the actress and comedian was furious by the last-minute change and believes it's yet another example ''of a network bowing to the perceived power of the Bush administration. ... Janeane is convinced her politics and all the hate mail the right-wing lobby stirred up during the war is what is behind all this.'' The Evil Bush Strikes Again!!! An ABC spokeswoman denies that, saying this was a decision based strictly on the artistic merits (or lack thereof) of the show â with Garofalo's politics ''never coming into the decision-making process whatsoever.'' It just SUCKED! Okay! Is it that hard for people to believe? For the pilot, Garofalo would have played an unwilling segment producer assigned to come up with corny feature pieces to run at the end of a TV newsmagazine show. Looks like pure TV gold to me. We're all gonna be rich! This is Garofalo's second recent TV stumble. A potential HBO project was also shelved. The Evil Bush! His tentacles are everywhere! Even cable! Posted by: tu3031 2003-06-06 |
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