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Norman Lear, creator-producer of the Maude series, developed the simplistic two-part story because a member of his family took lithium for manic-depression "and I have personally seen the results." Lear had the scripts checked by Harvard's Dr. Marcia Guttentag and by the director of research at Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Nathan S. Kline, a lithium enthusiast who has treated some 2,000 patients with the drug. Kline's book on depression, From Sad to Glad, was plugged on the Maude show...
Doonesbury 's author acknowledges his predecessors with equal alacrity. He has been known to sneak a caricature of Snoopy into his early works, and Li'I Abner's creator says Trudeau once ran up to him and gushed, "I've just been introduced as the young Al Capp. Gee, that was the greatest compliment I ever...
...resemblance between Michael J. Doonesbury and his creator is more than a case of art imitating life. Garretson Beekman Trudeau can trace his ancestors back to the 1650s, when the first Trudeaus moved from France to Montreal. One branch of the family stayed in Canada (and eventually produced Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau); another moved south, eventually to New York City, where Garry was born in 1948. When he was five, his family moved upstate to Saranac Lake; there his father, Francis, 56, still practices medicine. Garry and Sisters Michelle, now 24, and Jeanne, now 31, enjoyed a crystalline childhood...
...down big stories for the Flash, Girl Reporter Brenda Starr has finally tracked down her man. The funny-papers heroine, still a red-haired beauty of 23, last week exchanged wedding vows with dashing, eye-patched Basil St. John on the cartoon page of 150 newspapers. To celebrate, Starr Creator Dale Messick, 69, joined with some 125 well wishers for a mock reception in Washington...
...Charles M. Schulz. 222 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $29.95. Good grief, good old Charlie Brown is 25 years old! The birthday reminder may be a little depressing, but the biography is a multicolored high. With a series of old Sunday strips, black and white panels and prose reminiscences, Peanuts Creator Charles M. Schulz follows his charges from their days as Saturday Evening Post cartoons to the halcyon epoch of Snoopy as the Red Baron, Lucy as a 5? psychiatrist, and Charlie Brown as the boy who firmly decides to be wishy one day and washy the next. Schulz...