Article: `Roseanne' is no `Beverly Hillbillies,' star insists

HOLLYWOOD After almost a decade of financial desperation, breakups, heartaches and tearful smiles, everything finally seems to be coming up roses for Roseanne Conner and her struggling family.

The blue-collar clan from ABC's hit comedy "Roseanne" (airing locally at 7 p.m. Tuesdays on WLS-Channel 7) has won $108 million in the lottery and has dived headlong into the lifestyles of the rich and not-so-famous. The Conners have traveled in private planes to New York, been wined and dined by royalty, played touch football with the jet set in Martha's Vineyard, and been poked and prodded in snooty spas.

And despite the departure from its typical realistic story lines, Roseanne, the star and ...

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