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Actors Judd Nelson, Howard Hesseman and Elizabeth Pena came to Harvard as part of the "Freedom of Choice Campus Tour," a pro-choice voter registration drive sponsored by the Hollywood Policy Foundation Center. The three actors stood by student activists near the Harvard Square subway station, and handed out leaflets encouraging people to register to vote...
...Head of the Class is a family show in spirit, if not in fact. Howard Hesseman plays a substitute teacher who takes over a high school class of geniuses. The students are fiercely motivated (one girl is so crushed at getting a B that she has grounded herself), but Hesseman knows more about life and takes on the role of surrogate father. The pilot episode was overstuffed with characterization, but the funny premise and Hesseman's laid-back way with a line make the show one of the most promising comedies of the fall...
...station in the Midwest struggle to prosper in the competitive and loony radio business. Well-paced and actually funny at times, WKRP benefits enormously from an engaging small cast. But like all situation comedies, the show's writing will provide the true test of whether it can survive. Howard Hesseman, the Martin Mull look-alike who plays D.J. Dr. Johnny Fever, radiates good-natured egomania and could become a real star...
...modern American family: people who work together rather than live together. Among the station employees are the hip new program director (Gary Sandy), a shamelessly corrupt ad manager (Frank Bonner), and a prissy newscaster obsessed with hog futures (Richard Sanders). If there is a standout performer, it is Howard Hesseman as a fading deejay who falls asleep during his own broadcasts. Hesseman gets so many laughs that even the show's typically effusive laugh track cannot keep up with the pace
Donald Sutherland plays Jesse Veldini, a cheap crook and demolition-derby contestant with a pronounced contempt for private property. "I'm not a criminal, I'm an outlaw," he explains to his occasional paramour Iris (Jane Fonda). Jesse's ambitious brother Frank (Howard Hesseman), who is running for state attorney general, sees it differently. To him, Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth...
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