Word: jobeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BABY M (ABC) With an intelligent script, restrained direction and riveting performances by JoBeth Williams and John Shea, this docudrama about surrogate mother Mary Beth Whitehead became a stark thirtysomething nightmare...
...Pennsylvania 23-17 Yale 6-3 Lehigh 14-8 Lafayette 26-18 Cincinnati 31-27 5-1 23-13. 639 Julio R. Varela Asst. Sports Editor Harvard 28-12 Princeton 17-16 Dartmouth 21-17 Lehigh 17-14 Lafayette 35-17 Cleveland 13-10 4-2 20-16. 556 JoBeth Williams Actress Brown Alumnus Brown 21-18 Pennsylvania 21-7 Yale 48-21 Lehigh 14-7 Lafayette 7-3 Cleveland 10-3 Julie L. Belcove Guest Selector Executive Editor A Walter Payton Fan Harvard 28-24 Pennsylvania 35-10 Dartmouth 17-14 Columbia 28-27 Cornell 21-14 Cincinnati...
BABY M (ABC, May 22 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Fresh off the front page: JoBeth Williams portrays Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate mother who launched the famous custody battle...
...JoBeth Williams delivers a convincing performance as Rose's mother who tries to see only the best in people and ignore the animosity between her husband and daughter. After Williams discovers that her beautiful sister, Star, has engaged in some drunken flirtation with Voight, she flies into a righteous rage that is a wonder to watch. Somehow, beneath all the creampuffiness of her performance, Williams convinces us that Rose's mother has the spunk her daughter doesn...
...Hospital. Sometimes it is a sentimental plea for humanistic faculty-student relationships, sometimes a romantic comedy and sometimes The Blackboard Jungle revisited. Mostly, however, it is a mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their bedraggled characters might cling. There are no survivors...