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Other MTM regulars have found jobs. On The Betty White Show on CBS, the former Happy Homemaker and Georgia Engel, the bubbleheaded wife of Newscaster Ted Baxter, reappear as TV actress and her bubbleheaded roommate. In We've Got Each Other, CBS tries a tamer version of the role-reversal ploy that flopped in All That Glitters. Here, hubby does the housework while wife trudges off to the photography studio. CBS's On Our Own shows what happens when two young girls get into the advertising business...
...action is occurring in the old city of Riga in 1968. Somersaults is one of those plays (Our Town is another) for which the audience projects the essential scenery, place and time out of its own bittersweet memory. Rodion, the fuss-budgety doctor, and his patient Lidya, an actress come down to circus cashier, could as well be in Pasadena as Riga. The true location of each is an almost impermeable condition of the solitude to which life has delivered them. The difference is that Rodion defies his loneliness from inside a husk of willful indifference to women, while Lidya...
Performing with suspended, comatose bodies is a tough assignment for any actress. No wonder Genevieve Bujold read the script of Coma, based on Robin Cook's bestselling chiller, and said, "Oh, my God, I don't know about this!" But her doctor-writer friend Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain), author of the screenplay and the director, cajoled her into accepting the part. Bujold plays a surgical resident in a large Boston hospital who wonders why certain patients never regain consciousness after routine operations-and unravels a diabolical traffic in human organs. To inject as much realism as possible...
...tempting to describe March or Die as this month's Catherine Deneuve movie. The French actress has appeared on-screen so often in the past year or so that one suspects scientists have discovered the secret of duplicating her mesmerizing face on lifelike robots. Perhaps not one but several indistinguishable Catherine Deneuves are moving among the film studios simultaneously, all looking lovely and mysterious, and all giving remote-control performances that are just this side of catatonia...
DIVORCED. John Osborne, 47, British actor and playwright (Look Back in Anger, Inadmissible Evidence) who was the angriest of the Angry Young Men who slashed at the complacency of Britain in the '50s; by his fourth wife, Actress Jill Bennett, 45; on the grounds of his adultery; after nine years of marriage; in London...