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...that young blacks, who are among the most addicted TV watchers, receive of their own race. It was a strange and destructive message that Good Times sent out when its producers eliminated not only the family's strong, if frustrated, father (John Amos) but also, later, its mother (Esther Rolle), who abandoned her three children in their Chicago housing project to move to Arizona to be with her new man. Says Rolle, who quit the show because of her differences with the producers over the way the characters were portrayed: "It was an outrage, an insult." The Rev. Jesse...
Leslie Ann ("Esther") Mullin, 33, daughter of a retired Air Force colonel. She was a Peace Corps member in Africa after attending the University of Washington, where she was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society...
...moles" (spy jargon for longtime double agents) quickly learned that Josie Bissell and Esther Mullin had other prophets, among them Kate Millett and Betty Friedan. Indeed, the Revolutionary Committee had formed as a separate faction because Bissell and Mullin found too much "male supremacy" in the Weather Underground. The women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with...
...worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price to $100. So he and his wife Esther anted up what they thought it was worth-$500-and donated it to the public library, which accepted, says Director Laurence Solomon, "as an act of patriotism...
...Chicago area one Sunday evening, the 8 p.m. offerings on the VHF channels were the rape of Edith Bunker, Leslie Ann Warren's path to prostitution on 79 Park Avenue and a movie about mob violence in the trucking industry. Our choice? UHF with an old Esther Williams movie. Silly, but better for family viewing...