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...FIRST TIME I watched Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, I was disappointed. The show had been billed as a parody of conventional soap opera; it was supposed to be funny, but I didn't laugh once. In fact, I thought the whole thing was so silly I almost turned off the set; fortunately, my mother, already an addict, wouldn't let me. In an uncharacteristic fit of tolerance, I agreed to give the program another chance. Within a week, I was hooked. I'd watch the show every night, and when friends dropped over, I'd force them to watch with...
...Ford, Ed Asner, the gruff editor of Mary Tyler Moore fame, a rock with Mike on it (Douglas, that is), Merv (Griffin), even one with Pat Mitchell (I know who she is but I'm not sure what to call whatever it is that she does). Even Mary Hartman was preserved on stone. The only face missing from Aldo's rock pile is the face behind the marketplace, the senior legislator in Cambridge and current occupant of the mayor's office, the little man's pol, the honorable Alfred E. (for Effort) Vellucci...
...emphasis is on high drama and convoluted story lines that lather on from week to week. This strongly resembles what soap opera has been doing for decades. Some of the soaps' Homeric techniques have already sudsed off on the evening shows, partly through the smash spoof opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...
...film now being produced in Italy by Franco Rossellini. Still, in a rare lapse from his usual impermeable poise, the screenwriter confessed, "Control entails responsibility, and sometimes I just don't know what's going on." Vidal expects his appearance on TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which he will film in Hollywood next month, will prove less perplexing. "To understand Mary Hartman is to understand America," he said. "If Tiberius had watched the show, he would still be alive today...
...much too difficult. For it means making decisions based on the recognition of a right and a wrong. It requires us to control our passions and practice virtues. Morality urges us not to forsake our responsibilities to God, family, and country. It does not allow for socialism, pornography, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," abortion, or other crimes that call to Heaven for vengeance; for morality is a civilizing influence on man. It tames the savage and it can regenerate the cultured barbarian. It helps to make men docile, disposed to learn...