THE HYPE CAREY'ED AWAY DREW'S LIFE GETS MORE BIZARRE THAN HIS FANTASIES (IF THAT'S POSSILBE) AS SITCOM ENDS SEASON.``The Drew Carey Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marines and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show Show'' used to be a pretty straightforward sitcom about a group of working-class stiffs who rely on their friendship and no small amount of beer to get by, with the occasional fantasy sequence. This season, the story lines have been more bizarre than the fantasy sequences - Drew went into a coma, where he hung out in a cushy cush·y adj. cush·i·er, cush·i·est Informal Making few demands; comfortable: a cushy job. [Origin unknown. bachelor pad A bachelor pad essentially means a house (pad) in which a bachelor or bachelors (single men) live. It should not be confused with a bachelor apartment, which is a zero bedroom apartment where the main room serves as a bedroom, living room and dining room (and sometimes with a lot of babes and then ended up, briefly, as Mimi's baby. Since the plotting has gotten so bonkers, it's appropriate that the season ends with an hourlong episode with Drew literally losing his mind. When Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) puts Drew in charge of a new women's clothing store, the pressure weighs heavily on him, but not as heavily as Mimi (Kathy Kinney), who embarks upon a systematic plot to drive him insane. Oswald (Diedrich Bader) and Lewis (Ryan Stiles Stiles can refer to: People
But life is not so simple for Drew. If the show hasn't painted itself into a corner, it's come pretty close. The indulgent flights of fancy have begun to overwhelm the comedy, and what once was a pretty entertaining series has gotten lost in a morass of gimmicks. It still has enough sharp lines to remain funny, but it's best when it doesn't strive so desperately to be ``unique.'' ``The Drew Carey Show'' airs at 9 tonight on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. (Channel 7). It's tough to get too choked up about tonight's departure of ``Star Trek: Voyager,'' particularly since a new ``Trek'' series starring Scott Bakula has already been announced (oh, good! a new set of action figures!) before this one's had a chance to develop rigor mortis rigor mortis (rĭ`gər môr`tĭs), rigidity of the body that occurs after death. The onset may vary from about 10 min to several hours or more after death, depending on the condition of the body at death and on factors in the (except, perhaps, creatively). Nonetheless, after the requisite seven seasons, ``Voyager'' will bid us adieu. Tonight answers the question as to whether Capt. Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her crew ever get out of the Delta Quadrant and get back home. Actually, it answers it twice. Yes, that's pretty murky, but this is the 35th year of ``Star Trek'' we're talking here, so they can't keep up this pretense of making sense forever. Actually, the plot involves time travel, the Borg, a cheesy cheesy (che´ze) caseous. reunion before things have even been resolved, the Borg, the answer to the question which crew member gets to score with Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan), the Borg and so on. At one point, the crew decides it enjoys hanging out together so much they don't really mind if they never get back to Earth. Frankly, we agree with the second part of that equation, not so much with the first. What's the opposite of ``Live long and prosper?'' ``Star Trek: Voyager'' concludes at 8 tonight on UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation (Channel 13). - David Kronke TICKESTS MADONNA ADDS L.A. SHOWS: Madonna - not McDonald's - is approaching 1 billion served. After two initial shows sold out in record time, another pair of Madonna dates in September at Staples Center have been announced. Tickets for Madonna's ``Drowned World Tour The Drowned World Tour 2001 was Madonna's first world tour in eight years, following her 1993 The Girlie Show Tour. It was one of the most successful and highest-grossing concert tours of the year 2001 by selling out all concert dates throughout North America and Europe. 2001'' on Sept. 13 and 14 will go on sale at 10 a.m. May 30 through Ticketmaster. Seats for the Material Mom's first Staples concerts Sept. 9 and 11 went on sale last Sunday and were snapped up within minutes, said tour promoter SFX SFX Special Effects SFX Self Extracting (data compression) SFX SpreadFireFox (IRC) SFX Sound Effect(s) SFX Side Effects (counter-strike gaming clan) Entertainment. The previous weekend, more than 100,000 tickets were sold for two Madonna concerts each in Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and Oakland, at prices ranging from $45 to $250 (plus ticketing and other fees), the promoter reported. The trek is Madonna's first tour in eight years, to support her latest album, ``Music'' (Maverick). Her current single, ``What It Feels Like for a Girl,'' recently sat at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 1 on the trade magazine's Hot Dance Music chart. Along with Ticketmaster locations throughout the city, seats can be purchased by calling (213) 480-3232, or by going to www.ticketmaster.com. - Fred Shuster QUOTABLE quot·a·ble adj. Suitable for or worthy of quoting: a quotable slogan; a quotable pundit. quot ``That was a nightmare . . . Marilyn (Monroe) pretty much defined that song. The only way you can do it is throw yourself into it and hope you don't embarrass yourself.'' - Nicole Kidman on tackling ``Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'' in ``Moulin moulin (m  lăN`): see pothole. Rouge'' CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) The Borg Queen (Alice Krige, left) with Adm. Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) in ``Star Trek: Voyager'' finale tonight. (2 -- color) Mimi (Kathy Kinney) finally drives Drew (Carey) truly nuts in season finale. (3 -- color) Nicole Kidman |
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