10 best of the year: television. (Television).

(1) Ellen DeGeneres Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. She couched lesbian jokes in a nun's habit Noun 1. nun's habit - a long loose habit worn by nuns in a convent
guimpe - a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit

habit - a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order on Will & Grace, launched her own laugh-out-loud, back-to-basics sitcom, The Ellen Show, then brought Hollywood to its feet with her stunning Emmy hosting performance. In case anyone wondered, our lesbian Lucy has only just begun.

(2) Six Feet Under As smart as TV dramas get. We dig it.

(3) Stranger Inside Lesbian life--and family--behind bars. A major triumph for Cheryl Dunye and HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO)
A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber.

Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy .

(4) Queer as Folk Queer as Folk may refer to:

Queer as Folk (UK TV series) (1999-2000), a British television series about a group of gay men
Queer as Folk (US TV series) (2000-2005), a North American remake of the British series

There's never been anything like it, including the U.K. original. More, please.

(5) Me and My Shadows Judy Davis as Judy Garland. Executive-produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Multiple Emmys. Enough said.

(6) Boycott Out activist Bayard Rustin mentors Dr. Martin Luther King in this superb saga of the birth of the civil rights movement.

(7) ER The hottest lesbian romance in broadcast history ends, but a hot firefighter lights a new flame. Smokin'!

(8) Absolutely Fabulous Six new episodes. The name says it all.

(9) Scout's Honor There's nothing more all-American than a Boy Scout who's not a bigot bigot - A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, "Cray bigot", "ITS bigot", "APL bigot", "VMS bigot", "Berkeley bigot". .

(10) What Makes a Family Memo: Buy more Kleenex.

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Date:	Jan 22, 2002
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