SECOND BANANA ON TOP

IN THE LATEST OF TINSELTOWN'S SPECTACULAR COMEBACKS, LOUD, LOUTISH COMIC TOM ARNOLD HAS GONE FROM ROSEANNE TO RICHES

Not many moons ago, Tom Arnold's Hollywood career was so deep in the toilet you could hear the water running in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. It was bad enough that Roseanne, his soon-to-be ex, had fired him as executive producer of her eponymous ABC-TV hit series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show and Tom, he...

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