Blog: PopMatters

He wanted to hold on, but too many fans remembered the time he pushed Donna down the stairs. Alex was a sensitive poet/songwriter who worked in a grocery store by day and sang lead in a rock and roll band at night. He was in love with Rita, a dispatcher for a beer distributor who played saxophone in the band, and along with the others, he dreamed of finding success as a member of the Heights. The group's hopes were cruelly crushed, however, when Fox canceled The Heights after just three months due...