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Silverman had apparently divined a rising public interest in seeing women more prominently featured on TV. To be sure, NBC had spun Angie Dickinson's Police Woman out of its Police Story series two years ago and had done reasonably well with a show that portrayed a woman as brave and self-reliant. Then, of course, there was The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. Silverman ordered her resurrected after she was erroneously bumped off at the end of a special appearance on The Six Million Dollar Man; a heart and a rather engaging spirit coexist with the electronic circuitry...
What makes all this sexist nonsense just about bearable is the basic sweetness of the actresses who play the Angels. In background, they are not so different from the better-established stars with whom they compete. Though older than the Angels, Police Woman Angie Dickinson was just another beauty-contest winner who financed her acting lessons with a secretarial job until Director Howard Hawks cast her as Feathers, the dance-hall girl in his Rio Bravo. Like another Hawks discovery, Lauren Bacall, she was very feminine but very much a man's woman, easy to kid around with...
Neither Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner nor Wonder Woman Lynda Carter has, obviously, the mature appeal of an Angie Dickinson. But Los Angeles-born Wagner, who did a couple of low-budget features (notably Paper Chase), has potential. The show's creator, Ken Johnson, says he modeled her character after an ideal date he had in mind, someone "truthful, witty and eminently attractive," and Wagner seems to fill the bill. Says Wagner: "I'm trying like hell not to be Wonder Woman." Carter, 24, who is trying like hell to put that character across, is a former swimming champion...
Edwards is a veteran author; her nine books include a historical novel about Emily Dickinson, a biography of Judy Garland, and a soon to be published work on Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the movie. Says Edwards: "All my books are about survival, and Scarlett was an absolute master of the art. I also consider myself a great survivor. In fact, I think of myself as Scarlett O'Hara." There are some parallels. Edwards' father was born into a wealthy family, but was unable to earn a living after the money ran out in the 1930s...
...King and Joker, Dickinson's subject is the British royal family. Not the actual one, but another that the author invents, complete with idiosyncratic antecedents going back to Queen Victoria. King Victor II, a frustrated M.D., is on the throne. Married to Isabella of Spain, father of Prince Albert and Princess Louise, he lives in Buckingham Palace, where a practical joker is at work. The jokes seem harmless at first: a toad is placed on a covered plate for the King's breakfast (when the butler sees it, he faints). Then the jokes get nastier, ending...