Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexual fantasy in space? Why not? In television's latest Star Wars spinoff, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Nov. 17 on CBS, Diahann Carroll plays Mermia, a romantic vision from a water planet. She arrives on the screen when Attchituck, a 400-year-old member of the Wookie family, sits down at a special machine designed to enliven the imagination, closes his eyes and thinks X ratings. "I was very happy for him that at age 400 he could still have sensual, sexual fantasies," says Carroll, 43. "As a mere human, I was very jealous...
...those who would just prefer good food and conversation with interesting people, Sakowitz is advertising a $94,125 dinner with the likes of CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite and 20 other celebrities, including Pool Professional Minnesota Fats, Economist Milton Friedman and Feminist Gloria Steinem...
First, You Cry, Nov. 8, CBS, 9p.m. E.S.T...
...career as a song-and-dance woman. Last winter she came up with a special called How to Survive the 70s and Maybe Even Bump into Happiness, a thoroughly distasteful blend of toothless social satire and Vegas vulgarity. This fall Moore unveiled Mary, a regular variety show in CBS's old Sunday-night Ed Sullivan slot. On Mary the star had the aid of some top writers and supporting players, including Dick Shawn and Swoozie Kurtz. But the show flopped about aimlessly and folded last month after only three airings. Mary deserved to die. Its star cannot sing...
What Mary Tyler Moore can do-and it's nothing to be embarrassed about-is act. Indeed, she may be a better actress than either she or her fans realize. The proof can be found this week when CBS airs a TV movie that features Moore in a rare serious role. The film, First, You Cry, is a strong adaptation of NBC News Correspondent Betty Rollin's book about her recovery from a mastectomy...