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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more sympathy than that of many recent feminist heroines like Erica from An Unmarried Woman or the French nymphets in One Sings, the Other Doesn't. While directors no longer trumpet forth about making black films, many still want to make women movies. Ritt escapes this well-intentioned pot-hole by creating a central figure who's got not only XX chromosomes but grit and brains as well...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: A Brilliant Rae | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...very funny thing happened on the way to the tube: just three days before the show was supposed to go on the air, Norman Lear's T.A.T. Communications Co. suddenly yanked it away, leaving CBS, which was still promoting it Thursday morning, with a yawning hole in the Sunday schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mister Dugan Is Voted Out | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Take, for example, last Monday night. Channel 4 had on "The Best of Carson" with some guy named Merle Earle. Channel 5 had Police Story, with aging Presidential groupie Angie Dickinson and that guy with the hole in his chin. Rockford, meanwhile, had a very cool evening. He almost got his hand broken. His Firebird left the ground completely on at least two occasions. He got cheated out of his fee. In the end he helped steal a Mercedes limousine. Now, if you can't tell how cool all this is you might as well put your head...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Cool Files | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...green silk tie round his neck and a withered green carnation in his button hole, Bernard F. Kelly Sr. stood outside Sands Variety Store Tuesday afternoon. "I wear them the whole week before St. Patrick's Day," Kelly, 49 years a resident of Southie, grinned...

Author: By Sally Mcgillis and Billy Mckibben, S | Title: St. Patrick Comes to Southie | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the sickest and most tired was Fred Silverman, 41, the president of NBC, who threw two of his biggest movies into that black hole called the sweeps. "It's tragic," he says. "We had two blockbusters, Cuckoo's Nest and American Graffiti, on the air in this February period, and yet we reached only 32% of the audience. That is absolutely crazy. But the alternative would have been to put ordinary movies in there, and the only people who would have looked at them would have been the people in my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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