For Roseanne Barr and Bill Cosby, their names, unfortunately, were their shows
In September 1989, the cover of TV Guide featured the stars of the two highest rated shows of the era. One was "The Cosby Show." The other was "Roseanne."
Each regularly attracted some 30 million viewers, numbers that today would be mere fantasy in a TV executive's mind.
That image of the two disgraced stars - Roseanne Barr's arms stretched in triumph, Bill Cosby looking on wryly - is quite the sight following Barr's racist late-night tweet, an unconscionable attack on the famously dignified former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, who
