`Dharma' sparkles with hippy-dippy fun

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 24, 1997| Author: Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | Copyright information

"Dharma & Greg" is a new romantic sitcom with plenty of sparkle. Mostly, that's thanks to Jenna Elfman, dippy and wonderful as Dharma Finkelstein, yoga instructor and citizen of the cosmos. Dharma is a space cadet like Lisa Kudrow in "Friends" but without the fashionably ironic bite. "Is this a wild universe or what?" she exclaims beneath her head of cartoonish blond hair. Here's a sample of Dharma logic: She's got a dog named Stinky, and Stinky's got his own dog named Nunzio he received as ...