Curtin's comeback can't pull together this crummy comedy.(Suburban Living)(TV/Radio)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January, 2006

Byline: Ted Cox Jane Curtin always had a hidden anarchic streak running through her comedy. The way it was held in check by her prim and proper persona is what gave her work such tension, from the "Point/Counterpoint" segments on "Saturday Night Live" to her starchy straight woman opposite Susan Saint James on "Kate & Allie." On the new ABC situation comedy "Crumbs," however, Curtin gives unbridled release to that anarchic spirit as a bitter, borderline- psychotic, jilted wife, and in the process, with her crack comic timing, she instantly becomes the best thing about this series, debuting at 8:30 p.m.

today on WLS Channel 7. Unfortunately, with the show undercutting whatever "Arrested Development"-like edginess it might have as a family sitcom with an...

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