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Earth Gimble, the host, is a preternatural populist. Under a blond tuft of mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fernwood and the Gall | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Burford, now 47, still lives with his wife Fern in a subdivision house in Elkins, W. Va., but is planning a six-bedroom chalet at Snowshoe, a big new ski resort near by. He owns that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...floats from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly pursues the elusive college degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, in a gut history course called George Washington One, Gene meets Louise Fern, teacher and future room/bed mate...

Author: By Judy Bass, | Title: Sluggish Nonsense | 6/1/1977 | See Source »

Jungle wallpaper has transformed the kitchen into an ersatz fern grotto. The bedroom is nothing less than rococo. The spirit of Mardi Gras inhabits the game room. But the soul of Malibu's newest $800,000 mansion lies in its bathroom. "I thought it only appropriate to cover the walls with rocks," smiles The Who's millionaire drummer, Keith Moon, 30. "The house does belong to a rock star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hanging Out with the L.A. Rockers | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...made me wish he'd included more. Williams presumably feared, not without reason, that much of Thomas's poetry would prove as inaccessible to a theater audience as it did to me as a child; still, it's hard to imagine a picture of Thomas's childhood complete without "Fern Hill...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Portrait of the Young Artist | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

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