EntertainmentExtraReview: 'Sordid Lives' Thrives With CrazyReview: 'Sordid Lives' Thrives With CrazyThe Associated PressAP Television Writer Frazier Moore reviews 'Sordid Lives,' a new series premiering on the LOGO Network. (July 24)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] FM: IT'S APRIL 6, 1998, IN TINY WINTER, TEXAS, AND THINGS ARE HOPPING.CLIP 2A (ladies in living room):Sissy: "In all this craziness, I plum forgot to tell you: Tammy Wynette died!"...Sissy: "I just mean that, now, maybe Brother Boy will retire his fixation."FM (voiceover): FIXATION MAY NOT BE A STRONG ENOUGH WORD. LOCKED AWAY IN A LOONY BIN, BROTHER BOY WANTS TO BE TAMMY WYNETTE.CLIP 2B (Brother Boy as Tammy Wynette):FM: WELCOME TO THE SHOW. BY THAT I MEAN 'SORDID LIVES,' A VERY FUNNY COMEDY ABOUT QUIRKY, SMALL-TIME LIFE. BASED ON THE PLAY AND FILM BY DEL SHORES, 'SORDID LIVES' THE SERIES IS AFFECTIONATE AS IT IS ZANY, AND AS ZANY AS IT IS AUTHENTIC. IN ITS OWN WAY. LET'S JOIN SISSY AS SHE HEARS ABOUT HER NEIGHBOR NOLETA'S HUSBAND PROBLEMS.CLIP 4 - In TrailerNoleta: "Sometimes I fantasize about killing him in his sleep. With a butcher knife. Or a run to his head"..."Or by putting rat poison in his supper."FM: NOW HAVEN'T WE ALL HAD SIMILAR FEELINGS? 'SORDID LIVES' HAS AN ALL-STAR CAST, INCLUDING BETH GRANT, CAROLINE RHEA, BONNIE BEDALIA, ANDCLIP 3 (RUE McCLANAFM (voiceover): RUE MCCLANAN AS THE FAMILY MATRIARCH, AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN AS THE LOCAL SALOON SINGER, JUST RELEASED FROM PRISON.Rue: "Why don't you move in with me. Til you get back on your feet?"AND DON'T FORGET, AS IF WE COULD, LESLIE JORDAN AS BROTHER BOY, HERE TELLING HIS SHRINK THAT TAMMY TOLD HIM TO CARRY ON AFTER HER DEATH.CLIP 7 - Brother Boy with shrinkBrother Boy: "I'm not crazy. And Tammy did come to me. Me and only me"...Brother Boy: "I got a show to do."FM: THE SHOW WILL GO ON, AIRING WEDNESDAY AT 10 P.M. EASTERN ON LOGO. LOGO BILLS ITSELF AS A GAY-AND-LESBIAN-ORIENTED NETWORK. BUT GAY OR STRAIGHT, YOU'RE LIKELY TO FIND 'SORDID LIVES' A HOOT.UNTIL NEXT WEEK, THIS IS TV WRITER FRAZIER MOORE FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.Frazier Moore, The Associated Press.(****END****) Author: AssociatedPress Keywords: tv review: 'sordid lives' thrives crazy Added: July 24, 2008
