Word: fernwood
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...only its fifth week, Fernwood has yet managed to offend almost everybody. A rawhide sampler...
...Tonight show. The host is professionally affable, the guests are the usuals: a loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest and, so far, funniest invention...
...Fernwood, Ohio, the home town of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the studio of WZAZ-TV is almost painfully tacky. Guests sit on a tattered pea-green sofa, plumped with lavender pillows held together by safety pins. In front of them are gumdrops, a plate of carrot slices and celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese...
...want to be a plant," drones a glassy-eyed Mary Hartman from the Fernwood Receiving Hospital's mental ward. Who could blame her? As a pig-tailed Fernwood housewife on television's most talked-about series last season, Mary's doorstep had been darkened by adultery, impotence, venereal disease and an ax murderer, not to mention waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. No wonder Mary went bonkers on the show's closing episode. So what is next for poor Mary and her loopy friends in the new season that premiered last week?* It does not sound...
...television's first testicle transplant. As for good ole Merle, he becomes a "born-again" politician. Also tripping into view will be a Miss Tippytoes, a glamorous CB radio freak who Mary thinks has a handle on her husband Tom. Then there is Gore Vidal, who visits Fernwood to see if there is a book in the larger meaning of Mary's breakdown. Says Norman Lear, executive producer of MH2. "My bent as a mature human is to entertain with the material that life affords...