"conventional sitcom, the show did tackle important issues. Murphy Brown, a recovering alcoholic, became a single mother and later battled breast cancer. In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized prime-time TV for showing the Murphy Brown character ""mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice."" Quayle's disparaging remarks were subsequently written into the show, with Murphy shown watching Quayle's speech in disbelief at his insensitivity and ignorance of the reality of the lives of single mothers. A subsequent episode explored the subject of family values within a diverse set of families."
"loss of respect for human life was sickeningly sad ... What we saw last night and the night before in Los Angeles is not about civil rights. It's not about the great cause of equality that all Americans must uphold. It's not a message of protest. It's been the brutality of a mob, pure and simple."" Vice President Dan Quayle blamed the violence on a ""Poverty of Values"" – ""I believe the lawless social anarchy which we saw is directly related to the breakdown of family structure, personal responsibility and social order in too many areas of our society"" Similarly,"
"executive branch – you’re part of the legislative branch. You’re paid by the Senate, not by the executive branch. And it’s the president’s agenda. It’s not your agenda. You’re going to disagree from time to time, but you salute and carry out the orders the best you can"". On May 19, 1992, Quayle gave a speech entitled """" to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. In this speech, Quayle blamed the violence on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. In an aside, he cited the single mother title"
"American values."" This opinion, however, fails to recognize the historical oppression and injustices experienced by blacks and other minority groups which rap music and the hip hop scene sought to bring attention to. In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle called on Interscope Records to withdraw ""2Pacalypse Now"" because it was a ""disgrace to American music"". The catalyst for Quayle's outrage was an incident when a Texas youth shot a state trooper and referenced the album as his motivation. In ""2Pacalypse Now"" rapper Tupac Shakur raised issues of institutional racism, teen pregnancy, and police brutality. He tells a fictional story of"
"The album's title is a portmanteau of 2Pac's name and the 1979 film ""Apocalypse Now"". ""2Pacalypse Now"" could be found in the vinyl countdown and the instruction manual for """", along with the track, titled ""I Don't Give a Fuck"", which the song appeared on the in-game radio station, Radio Los Santos. The album generated significant controversy stemming from then-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle's public criticism after Ronald Ray Howard murdered a Texas state trooper and his defense attorney claimed he was influenced by ""2Pacalypse Now"" and its strong theme of police brutality. Quayle made the statement, ""There's no reason"
"through 1989-Larry Jones (HANO) blames racism for the problems in Desire. Aims to build the projects was quantity not quality 1990-Public housing becomes even more grim in New Orleans. Most economically disadvantaged areas in the United States are housing projects which are direct results of federal programs. 1991-Revitalize Desire by razing some buildings 1993-A triple killing leaves three bullet-riddled bodies at the end of a strip of the complex referred to at the time as “Cocaine Alley.” 1994-HANO’s reputation declines as HUD conducts a general audit visiting 150 units in a random sample. All 150 flunk HUD’s basic quality standards"
"of murderous lesbians who killed retirement home patients for their money. NBC edited the episode because of the protests, but a sit-in was staged in the head of NBC's offices. In the middle of the 1970s, gay men and lesbians began to appear as police officers or detectives, facing coming out issues. This did not extend to CBS' groundbreaking show ""Cagney & Lacey"" in 1982, starring two female police detectives. CBS production made conscious attempts to soften the characters so they would not appear to be lesbians. In 1991, a bisexual lawyer portrayed by Amanda Donohoe on ""L.A. Law"" shared"
"responsible for social ills are critical of the way many gangsta rappers intentionally exaggerate their criminal pasts for the sake of street credibility. Rick Ross and Slim Jesus among others have been heavily criticized for this. In 1992, then-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle blasted the recording industry for producing rap music he believed led to violence. Quayle called on Time Warner Inc. subsidiary, Interscope Records, to withdraw Tupac Shakur's 1991 debut album ""2Pacalypse Now"" from stores. Quayle stated, ""There is absolutely no reason for a record like this to be published—It has no place in our society."" Quayle's motivation came"
"four days of rioting. Thirty-four people were killed and 1,034 injured at a cost of $40 million in property damage and looting. So many businesses burned on 103rd Street that it became known as ""Charcoal Alley."" The City strove to improve social services for the black community, but with many of the high-paying industrial jobs gone black unemployment remained high. The growth of street gangs and drugs in minority communities exacerbated the problems. By 1990, the LAPD, which had followed a para-militaristic model since Chief Parker's regime in the 1950s, became more alienated from minority communities following accusations of racial"
"the White House Press Secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, alleged that ""many of the root problems that have resulted in inner city difficulties were started in the '60s and '70s and ... they have failed ... [N]ow we are paying the price."" Writers for former Congressman Ron Paul framed the riots in similar terms in the June 1992 edition of the ""Ron Paul Political Newsletter"", billed as a special issue focusing on ""racial terrorism."" ""Order was only restored in LA"", the newsletter read, ""when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began ..."
"and is also the motto of La Onda in the film. Hollywood Pictures insisted on the name change as the studio felt that it would incite violence in East Los Angeles. In addition, executives at Hollywood Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney, were cautious about the potential effect the film would have following the 1992 LA Riots and the attribution given to ""Boyz N the Hood"" as a partial cause/inspiration of the riots. Director Taylor Hackford has stated that he was very unhappy with this decision as the film's message was the exact opposite of the one that the studio feared"
"said David Wiegand of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"", ""two varieties of comedy [that] don't always work well together."" On the other end, Neil Genzlinger of ""The New York Times"" blasted the show. ""[It] begins with a tenuous premise, uses it to leap to an inaccurate dichotomy and supports that with tired, unfunny stereotypes."" Carly Chaikin received overwhelming critical praise for her role as Dalia Royce. Critics consistently referred to her as the series breakout star and she was arguably one of the most popular characters in the show. For her performance, Chaikin was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award"
"entire Vietnam War protest era. The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live—right in his own neighborhood. Campus radicals and ""hippies"" inevitably became one of Capp's favorite targets in the sixties. Alongside his long-established caricatures of right-wing, big business types such as General Bullmoose and J. Roaringham Fatback, Capp began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez (in the character of Joanie Phoanie, a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage ten thousand dollars' worth of ""protest songs""). The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years"
"publicly acknowledging it – is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality"". In response to Quinto's coming out (and in reaction to gay suicides caused by bullying), Dan Kloeffler of ABC News Now also came out. That same month another teenager, Jamie Hubley, was reported to have committed suicide for the same reason. While he never explicitly talked about Rodemeyer, comparisons have been drawn. The Fox TV show ""Glee"" referred to Jamey, when Finn (Cory Monteith) talked to Santana (Naya Rivera) about gay suicide in the"
"outlandish pronunciation and grammatical errors, the nasally-voiced Preston Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout ""REFOOOOOOORM!"", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous Joe Clark, and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politicians also made guest appearances on the show, often interacting directly with their parodic counterparts. However, Colonel ""Teresa"" Stacy (Ferguson) quickly emerged as the show's most popular character — each time he appeared, Stacy would load up the Chicken Cannon and fire rubber chickens and other assorted projectiles at whomever he"
"career. He takes medication to temper his violent mood swings. Cuddles (puppeteer Bob Martin) is a comfort doll designed to help people cope with their problems. However, as the introductory voice-over to each episode informs the viewer, it is Cuddles who is now the problem. The chronic subordination of his own needs to those of others caused him to explode one day, grab a rifle, and start shooting. Despite this eruption, Cuddles is generally the best behaved of the group, although his naivete often gets him and his fellow residents at the halfway house into trouble. He cannot handle pressure"
"event, and fights broke out. Some 50 police officers were needed to control the situation. When disco star Van McCoy died suddenly on July 6, Dahl marked the occasion by destroying one of his records, ""The Hustle"", on the air. Dahl and Meier regularly mocked disco records on the radio. Dahl also recorded his own song, ""Do Ya Think I'm Disco?"", a parody of Rod Stewart's disco-oriented hit ""Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"". The song characterized as populated by effeminate men and frigid women. The protagonist, named Tony after Travolta's character in ""Saturday Night Fever"", is unable to attract a"
"feigning interest in him, then blowing up his tanker truck full of gasoline. The most infamous image of the 1992 Los Angeles riots was the Reginald Denny incident. Denny was a white truck driver who was assaulted in a black neighborhood during the riots, and was almost beaten to death. The footage received nationwide media coverage, and the defendants in the case (the ""L.A. Four"") claimed to be fighting ""economic oppression"". Long-haul trucker Keith Hunter Jesperson made headlines in 1994 when it was discovered he was the ""Happy Face Killer"". The 1998 film ""Black Dog"" starred Patrick Swayze as a"
"mistakes"". One part of his review read: ""My biggest overall problem had to do with the program’s periodic factual inaccuracies, such as when [Soledad] O'Brien refers to the riot which erupted in L.A. after the Rodney King decision as the most deadly U.S. riot in 100 years. She conveniently ignores other more bloody incidents like the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 when over 300 blacks were slaughtered by white militiamen. What’s up with that?"" Other columnists, such as Askia Muhammad from the Final Call, also criticized the series calling it ""a faulty portrait"". One part of his column read: ""CNN"
"2000, Whitman was the morning host for a nationally syndicated comedy radio network (that also provided an ahead-of-its-time internet audio and video stream) called Comedy World. At Los Angeles based Comedy World he kicked off a programming lineup that included comedians Craig Shoemaker and Bobby Slayton. Whitman's uncanny celebrity impressions have fooled mainstream media and others. In the 90's he made an unforgettable phone call to Former Vice President Dan Quayle as President Clinton and a duped Quayle talked to ""Clinton"" for five minutes. At the end of the conversation, Whitman broke character and let Quayle know that it was"
"again. The first of these was an episode titled ""He's a Crowd"", from the 1991 legal drama ""L.A. Law"". In March 2016, the CW series ""The 100"" caused controversy with its decision to kill off Lexa, a supporting character who had been involved in a fledgling relationship with Clarke Griffin, one of the series' protagonists. Lesbian & bisexual fans of The 100, as well as numerous other shows, united in expressing their anger and frustration with the show's creator, Jason Rothenberg, causing him to issue a formal apology for Lexa's death. Lexa's death caused immediate outrage from the show's large"
"to a ""poverty of values"", and saying: ""[i]t doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice'"". Quayle's remarks initiated widespread controversy, and have had a continuing effect on U.S. politics. Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of marriage, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown ""kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the 'collapse of the"
"2009, Lenny Henry explained that he was contractually obliged to perform and regretted his part in the show, telling ""The Times"" in 2015 that his appearance on the show led to a profound ""wormhole of depression"", and that he regretted his family not intervening to prevent him from continuing in the show. The show's premise began to be seen as offensive and racist on account of its portrayal of blacked-up characters behaving in a stereotypical manner. After the murder in Alabama in 1963 of 35-year-old white postal worker William Lewis Moore, who was on a protest march against segregation in"
"24, 1990, Hughes was arrested along with 51 others during the so-called ""Quayle Riot"". She was charged with unlawful assembly. The riot began as a demonstration timed to correspond with a visit by then-Vice-President Dan Quayle. She subsequently sued the city, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated when she was hand-cuffed for more than 3 and one half hours, forced to kneel for over an hour and cursed at by Police. The suit was subsequently settled and the criminal charges against her were dropped. Hughes operated the Kitchen Table Cafe in Portland's Buckman neighborhood for most of the 1990s."
"""lawless vandals"". He also stated that people ""are looting because ... [t]hey do not share our values, and their children are growing up in a culture alien from ours, without family, without neighborhood, without church, without support."" While Los Angeles was mostly unaffected by the urban decay the other metropolitan areas of the nation faced since the 1960s, racial tensions had been present since the late 1970s, becoming increasingly violent as the 1980s progressed. Democrat Maxine Waters, the African-American Congressional representative of South Central Los Angeles, said that the events in L.A. constituted a ""rebellion"" or ""insurrection"", caused by the"
"is appalled to find that ""the idiots"" in question – Nathan and his contemporaries – have adopted him as their spiritual leader, failing to see that they are the very people he was criticising. The series features two other central characters, siblings Dan (Julian Barratt) and Claire (Claire Keelan) Ashcroft. Dan dislikes everything Nathan Barley stands for, while Claire seeks to highlight the plight of the inner city's homeless and drug-dependent. While Dan sees a clear distinction between himself and the ""idiots"", he's frequently forced to compromise his own ethics in order to earn a living, and seems to be"
"introduced in 1955. During this period, the LAPD set the standards of professionalism echoed in the contemporaneous TV series ""Dragnet"" and ""Adam-12"". The most serious challenge in this period was the 1965 Watts riots following accusations of mistreatment and police brutality toward minority communities by the City and the LAPD. For six days, buildings and businesses were looted and set on fire, and sniping also took place before the California Army National Guard were deployed to assist the overwhelmed LAPD in restoring order. Over 34 people died in the Watts riot and $40 million in damage was caused as almost"
"family. Following Heather's exit, Jonathan Gordon-Davies (Stephen Pinner) bought number 9, moving in with his fiancée, Laura Wright (Jane Cunliffe) in April 1987. Jonathan and Laura were both young professionals epitomising the 'yuppie' stereotype of the era and ostensibly filled the social demographic previously occupied by Heather. However, shortly after their marriage in August and following extensive character development in the scripts, Laura was soon hospitalised by an almighty electric shock. After leaving the bathroom and switching on a brass-faced light switch that had been incorrectly wired by her father, Laura tumbled down the stairs, and went into a coma"
"the other housemates. Winick's ""Nuts and Bolts"" strip began running in the ""San Francisco Examiner"" in March of that year. Winick, who is Jewish, was offended at Rainey's decision to wear a T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, and by Rainey's refusal to accede to Winick's request not to wear it. After filming of the season ended, Winick and Ling moved to Los Angeles to continue their relationship. By August 1994, Zamora's health began to decline. After being hospitalized, he asked Winick to substitute for him at a national AIDS education lecture. When Zamora died"
"Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on family values, culminating in the 1992–93 season premiere, ""You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato"", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of ""FYI"" showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word ""character""), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the"
"dignity and respect. Overt bigotry against gay people on screen became akin to overt racism, sexism or anti-Semitism. A-list Hollywood stars were more eager to play a gay character in a film. Initially, most of these Hollywood depictions were in the context of campy, funny characters, often in drag on some sort of adventure or farce, while teaching a lesson in tolerance, if not equality. Drag portrayals also made a comeback in many films of the 1990s, notably ""The Birdcage"" (1996), starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, ""Mrs. Doubtfire"" (1993), also starring Robin Williams, ""The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of"
"deterioration of South Central to the declining living conditions of the residents, and reported that local resentments about these conditions helped to fuel the riots. Other scholars compare these riots to those in Detroit in the 1920s, when whites rioted against blacks. But instead of African-Americans as victims, the race riots ""represent backlash violence in response to recent Latino and Asian immigration into African-American neighborhoods."" Social commentator Mike Davis pointed to the growing economic disparity in Los Angeles, caused by corporate restructuring and government deregulation, with inner city residents bearing the brunt of such changes. Such conditions engendered a widespread"
"June 2 ballot that would limit the power and term of the chief. These actions led to charges that Gates was out of touch. General command-and-control failings in the entire LAPD hierarchy during the riots led to criticisms that he was incapable of managing his force. In the aftermath of the riots, local and national media printed and aired dozens of reports deeply critical of the LAPD under Gates, painting it as an army of racist beat cops accountable only to an arrogant leadership. The paramilitary approach that Gates represented resulted in criticism and calls for the LAPD to shift"