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...handsome woman with the voice of a diesel truck in second gear. Last year that imposing, now graying, woman with the small blonde ingénue inside marched onto the nation's television screens as Maude. It took fate 40-odd years to get around to her, but Bea Arthur is finally a star...
...lifting, after conceding that she feels "like an old hen with a turkey's neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from Bea Arthur herself, who plans to have the real thing during the mid-season hiatus...
...appeal -the show consistently placed in the top five of last year's Nielsen ratings-is her realism, says Arthur. "Maude's age, her outspokenness, make her real. For the first time, a person is coming on in a TV sitcom." Much of the credit goes to Bea Arthur, who is a somewhat softer-spoken, toned-down version of her TV persona. "I'm a big lady with a deep voice, I'm a liberal, and if I get angry I speak out," she says. She is also a consummate comedienne and an accomplished actress...
...biography Gershwin, His Life and Music (Bobbs-Merrill; $12.50) to the New York Times's handsome songbook, The Gershwin Years in Song ($14.95). Dominating them all is Atheneum's The Gershwins ($25). Written and edited by Biographer Robert Kimball and Gershwin Intimate Alfred Simon, cleverly designed by Bea Feitler, The Gershwins is an ingenious "scrapbook" containing just about everything in the way of letters, documents, recollections, essays, chronologies, manuscript pages and pictures that one would want to read or see concerning George and his lyricist older brother...
...BEA has apparently received much popular support in its protest. A candelight vigil held Saturday night on Burlington Common in honor of the four failed BEA officers drew over 700 people a BEA spokesman said...