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- Oct. 05, 1992: Murphy to Dan:Read My Ratings
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 05, 1992 LYING:Everybody's Doin' It (Honest)
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- THE WEEK, Page 25
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
- Murphy to Dan: Read My Ratings
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- <p>The latest round in the Brown-Quayle feud kicks off a CBS rout
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- <p> The ultimate irony of the sparring between fictional
- journalist Murphy Brown and real-life Vice President Dan Quayle
- is that it serves the purposes of one of America's greatest
- entrepreneurs: Murphy Brown TV series creator Diane English. Last
- week's season opener, pumped up by weeks of publicity, drew an
- enormous 44 million viewers to a special hour-long episode.
- Quayle's rebuke of the sitcom for supposedly glamourizing single
- moms was challenged by such scripted scolding from star Candice
- Bergen as, "Perhaps it's time for the Vice President to recognize
- that families come in all shapes and sizes."
- </p>
- <p> Murphy Brown, along with the stellar perform ance of new
- Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of
- Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda
- Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English
- herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as
- a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night
- figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful
- Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic
- themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new
- bridgehead for the Tiffany Network.
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