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...first day, Co-Hosts Mariette Hartley and Rolland Smith told their new TV audience, "We want to be your friendly wake-up call." On the second day, Hartley pasted a HIT SHOW ON BOARD sign on Smith's lapel. By day three, she was fairly doubled over with laughter at the good time being had: "It's such fun waking up with all of these people!" But the credo for The Morning Program came at the end of its fourth show. As part of a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the cast sang We Shall Overcome...
...debut last week, most viewers probably agreed. In an effort to look different from its morning competitors -- Today and ABC's Good Morning, America -- The Morning Program has come up with something to embarrass everyone. Smith, a straitlaced former anchorman for New York City's WCBS-TV, and Actress Hartley, who once filled in as a Today co-host, engage in strained banter on an elaborately homey set. The show's regular features include personal ads, in which singles promote themselves via 30-second video clips, comedy routines that, good or bad, do not go down easily...
...Morning Program has more conventional features as well: celebrity interviews, daily health tips, movie reviews and short news inserts. But Hartley, babbling constantly, is inexcusably cheerful, and the whole enterprise pushes too fast and too hard: Hour Magazine on speed...
...work on view ranges from Symbolists like Paul Serusier to gifted postmodernists like Bruno Ceccobelli; from mannered Rosicrucians and a little- known visionary named Hilma af Klint to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jasper Johns. Nor does it leave out that durable old alchemist, Marcel Duchamp. It also features several vitrines of early mystical, cosmological and alchemical texts known to have been studied by modern artists, some of whose illustrations are of astonishing beauty and suggestiveness. But its main focus, inevitably, is on the inventors of abstract art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Kupka, Kazimir Malevich -- all represented by remarkable works...
...series of dryly satirical routines in which he portrayed a well- meaning, slightly befuddled organization man trying to cope with extraordinary events, from the discovery of tobacco to King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building. In his previous TV series, The Bob Newhart Show, he appeared as Bob Hartley, a psychologist who played second fiddle to the neurotics who trooped in and out of his office...