Arts&Entertainment: August 10, 2001
Off the top
GOOD MOVE: The Boston Beer Co., which brews Samuel Adams ale, has pulled a radio ad campaign featuring Ben Affleck, who checked himself into an alcohol rehab clinic last week.
Side show
THE BUTLER DID IT: One of the most unlikely '80s pop culture icons was a stocky British stage and film actor in his 60s who played the title role in a sitcom about the butler for an American sportswriter and his family. (The writer was played by retired baseball player-announcer Bob Uecker, who should have had his own sitcom, but that's another story).
A pointed look at relationships
TAMPA -- Granted, spike heels aren't as compelling a theatrical metaphor as, say, Chekhov's sea gull, but we live in a more superficial age.
In the news
Harvey back on radio
WTSP changes general managers
Noreen Parker is out after 3 years. Gannett VP Sam Rosenwasser takes over.
