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"Mad About You" Pays Tribute to Its Sitcom Forbearers

TV critic David Bianculli previews tonight's episode of "Mad About You," which features a guest appearance by Carl Reiner as Alan Brady -- the character he played on "The Dick Van Dyke Show."

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Other segments from the episode on February 16, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 16, 1995: Interview with Robert Rector; Interview with Richard Clifford; Review of the television show "Mad About You."
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Examining the Role of the Family in Welfare Reform

Robert Rector is a policy analyst at the conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation. He is credited wiith being the driving force behind the rightward swing of the newest GOP welfare reform. He believes the welfare system creates illegitimacy, and that, "the more you spend [on welfare] the more clientele for the programs you create." He also believes to bring people out of their "behavioral poverty," they need to work for their assistance.

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How Parents Can Choose the Best Day Care

Child care innovator and reformer Richard Clifford. In 1993-94 he took a year leave from his professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish and direct the North Carolina Smart Start Early Childhood Initiative under Governor Hunt. The program is a working model of partnership between public and private groups. It has been considered a success and is being expanded into other counties of North Carolina.

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"I Spy" Sequel Loses to NBC's Regular Line Up.

Television critic David Bianculli reviews the new CBS telemovie "I Spy Returns," which re-pairs stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp from the old "I Spy" series. Bianculli tells us how the telemovie stacks up against its competition, the regular lineup of NBC sitcoms.

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Daughter of Warhol star looks back on a bohemian childhood in the Chelsea Hotel

Alexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, Viva, Auder and Auder's younger half-sister, Gaby Hoffmann, lived in the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan. It was was famous for having been home to Leonard Cohen, Dylan Thomas, Virgil Thomson, and Bob Dylan, among others.

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This fake 'Jury Duty' really put James Marsden's improv chops on trial

In the series Jury Duty, a solar contractor named Ronald Gladden has agreed to participate in what he believes is a documentary about the experience of being a juror--but what Ronald doesn't know is that the whole thing is fake.

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