Head over Heels is an American television sitcom created by Jeff
Franklin that aired on the United Paramount Network from August 26 to
October 28, 1997. The series is set in a video dating agency based in
Miami Beach, Florida, and run by brothers Jack (played by Peter Dobson)
and Warren Baldwin (Mitchell Whitfield). Their employees are Valentina
(Cindy Ambuehl) and two romance counselors, Carmen (Eva LaRue) and Ian
(Patrick Bristow, pictured). Connie Stevens was initially cast, but
never appeared in the show. Andrew Gottlieb was a co-producer, and Vince
Cheung and Ben Montanio were consulting producers. The sitcom was the
lowest-performing series tracked by Nielsen Holdings for the 1997–1998
television season. Head over Heels was one of 30 U.S. programs that
season to feature a gay, lesbian, or bisexual character; Ian was
bisexual. Critics faulted the show's characters, sex comedy, and lack of
diversity.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_over_Heels_%28American_TV_series%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1453:
Ladislaus the Posthumous was crowned King of Bohemia, although
George of Poděbrady remained in control of the government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislaus_the_Posthumous>
1886:
In New York Harbor, U.S. president Grover Cleveland dedicated
the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France commemorating the Declaration
of Independence; New York City office workers responded by spontaneously
holding the first ticker-tape parade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-tape_parade>
1940:
World War II: Italy invaded Greece after Greek prime minister
Ioannis Metaxas rejected Benito Mussolini's ultimatum demanding the
cession of Greek territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Italian_War>
2007:
In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de
Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
para-fascism:
(fascism) A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically
fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical
practices.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-fascism>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his
passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the
good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of
desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the
feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your
whole sensibility.
--Francis Bacon
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