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Six Feet Under gets strong viewing
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          Jun 07, 2001
          
        
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 Variety reports that Six Feet Under, the new HBO comedy by gay writer Alan Ball (American Beauty), had the largest viewership of any HBO original series debut, outpacing even the debut of The Sopranos in 1999. Almost 4 million households tuned in last Sunday to check out the mordant humor of a series set in a funeral parlor that is run by a decidedly repressed gay character.     

        
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Reggie Dunbar II, diagnosed with HIV in 1985, says a federal court’s decision to uphold the military’s enlistment ban reflects outdated assumptions about people living with the virus.

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