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Lucille Ball, for example, is returning as a "free-spirited grandmother" who moves in with her daughter's family in ABC's Life with Lucy. Elliott Gould, Ellen Burstyn and Wilford Brimley are among the other stars who will be heading TV homes this season. Pam Dawber (Mork and Mindy) becomes a roommate and surrogate parent for a runaway sibling in CBS's My Sister Sam. In ABC's Heart of the City, a police detective has himself transferred out of the SWAT unit so he can spend more time with his motherless children. And Starman, also on ABC, brings...
Together We Stand (CBS). In a close encounter of a more familiar kind, Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace Stone play parents who decide to adopt a child and wind up with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about...
...Harvard bigwigs were asked "for the titles of four to six books and the reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...
Radcliffe President Horner, for instance, cannot resist listing a Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches, and Other Stories among the books she's loved before. Professor Gould, after telling us how he played stickball as a street-kid in New York City, includes Lucky to Be a Yankee by Joe DiMaggio on his list of great books, following Darwin's The Origin of Species...
...Gould also cites the King James version of the Book of Job. Considering his triumphant battle against disease, that's kind of touching. Most often, though, the self-indulgence of the contributors is not so affecting...