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SHOW BUSINESS, Page 81BEST OF 1991
1. BEST DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY NOT NAMED KENNEDY
The Jacksons, who proved you can never be too rich, too
thin, too bleached, too naked, too . . . too Jackson to keep the
gossips mum. Just sign a multimedia deal that could bring you
a billion (Michael) or a record contract worth $32 million
(Janet). Or pose nude in Playboy (La Toya). Or chastise your bro
as "reconstructed, been abducted" in a rap song (Jermaine to
Michael). Or put crotch shots and a car trashing in your music
video (Michael). The worst of it is that on the side, a couple
of them (Michael, Janet) make good music.
2. BEST OPENING LINE BY A COMEDIAN AFTER CHARGES OF
MASTURBATING IN A PORN-MOVIE THEATER MADE HIM THE TARGET OF SIX
WEEKS' WORTH OF SMIRKS
Pee-wee Herman's as he resurfaced at the televised MTV
Music Video Awards show for the first time since his arrest:
"Heard any good jokes lately?" Fans suggested that next time he
stay home and amuse himself with some of Clarence Thomas' video
favorites.
3. BEST REASON FOR A BROADWAY MUSICAL TO POSTPONE ITS
OPENING INDEFINITELY
The saga of Nick & Nora, which played full-price previews
for a near record nine weeks while its creators struggled to
fix the show, derived from The Thin Man. Then, just a week
after it opened to scorched-earth reviews, it was Asta la vista,
Nick & Nora.
4. BEST TUMMIES
Demi Moore's and Delta Burke's. The Vanity Fair cover
portrait of Moore, nude and spectacularly pregnant, provided her
husband Bruce Willis (Hudson Hawk) with his only hit production
of 1991. Burke, whose extra poundage sparked disputes backstage
on Designing Women, was finally fired from the sitcom. Such is
the weigh of all flesh.
5. BEST A LA CARTE ITEM ON THE DINNER MENU
Cabaret theater, at which audience members get to eat,
join a conga line or be a murder suspect. Two Manhattan
standouts: Pageant, which would be a delicious parody of beauty
contests even if you didn't get to vote for the winner, and Song
of Singapore, which would be a sparkling evocation of '40s music
and fun even if you didn't get to dance the night away.
6. BEST REASON TO GO BOWLING
TV's ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again
transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest
investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the
R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that
is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them
all dirtysomething.
7. BEST UNSCHEDULED SOLILOQUY BY AN ACTOR
Nicol Williamson's in I Hate Hamlet, after the notoriously
erratic performer smote co-star Evan Handler with the flat of
his sword during a dueling scene, and Handler -- believing the
blow was deliberate -- walked off and quit the show. "Well,"
said Williamson to the stunned audience, "should I sing?"
8. BEST NEW FACE
Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked
stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the
understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to
the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping
with Bryant Gumbel.
9. BEST ARGUMENT THAT GOD IS FED UP WITH HOLLYWOOD
The plight of hitmaking movie studios. Carolco, producer
of 1991's top-grossing Terminator 2, neared its own Armageddon
and had to cut projects, budgets and staff. Orion Pictures,
which released the mega smashes Dances with Wolves and The
Silence of the Lambs, is in bankruptcy court.
10. BEST SLOW BURN
David Letterman's, on learning he would not replace Johnny
Carson when the Tonight show king retires this May after 30
seasons. The job went to map-of-Italy-jawed Jay Leno, the
permanent guest host of Tonight since 1987. The press had
Letterman threatening to bolt to ABC, but the only removal
constant viewers noted was that of his show's most popular
segment, the 10 Best lists.