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...programs go in for a little extra insurance. Julia (NBC) is a Negro widow. Warns Star Diahann Carroll: "Julia is not going to tell it like it is. It's a comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams...
...nowadays, it is not merely fashionable but an absolute advantage to be black. By next season, just about every series will feature a Negro player. NBC, which will carry Julia, has had Diahann Carroll tied up for the title role since March. CBS signed Comic Flip ("Heah come de judge") Wilson for four Ed Sullivan dates next year, but NBC won exclusive rights to him for 1969-70. And CBS is reportedly trying to buy Bill Cosby away from NBC with a 20-year, $20 million deal...
...Though Diahann Carroll's Julia is one of the first series to have Negro writers, she doubts that Negroes will be able to identify with her. But she hopes at least that whites will for once see a believable black on TV. Says she: "I'd like a couple million of them to watch and say, 'Hey, so that's what they do when they go home at night.' " Preferential Treatment. The attempt to add black to the TV spectrum is not confined to entertainment shows. Net works and stations all over the country have...
...Diahann Carroll offered television watchers a sneak preview of what is to come when she appeared in last week's Academy Awards show in Arnold Scaasi's gown with a V neck cut extraordinarily low, wide and handsome. Vogue readers have already been treated to a full-page photo of Young Model Penelope Tree wearing Yves St. Laurent's sheer organza see-through blouse with nothing underneath it. "It's the hottest thing we've had for years," says Bernard Goodman, vice president of Sport-whirl, which has sold 80,000 of its Jeanne Campbell...
Back in the days when Truman Capote wore bangs, he wrote a short story called House of Flowers about the ladies of a bordello on a Caribbean island. When he expanded it into a musical comedy in 1954, it fairly swarmed with talent-Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll sang, Geoffrey Holder danced, Balanchine worked on the choreography, Oliver Messel designed the sets, and Harold Arlen turned out a lilting, lyrical musical score. Nonetheless, House of Flowers faded fast...