Word: kavner
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...apartment, a job and a man-and miraculously found all three. She has also found a supporting cast that rivals Mary's: Harold Gould (Pop), who helped sharpen The Sting; Nancy Walker (Ma), a former stage comedienne whose timing could be used to set observatory clocks; Julie Kavner (Rhoda's sister Brenda), a fresh face with an oversized appetite and talent to match. Rhoda has even been given a fiance, Joe (David Groh). On Oct. 28 they will exchange vows, rings and one-liners in an expanded one-hour special starring Mary and Rhoda...
...years old." "All the more reason," comes the topper. As a character, Rhoda's ma may be predictable, but good, realistic, almost earthy comedy writing on television is not. Neither is the show's third major character, Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). She is sleepy-voiced, sad-eyed and overweight from trying to eat her way out of a mild but chronic depression. In short, like so many characters emerging from the Moore atelier, she is a type we know better from our daily rounds than we do from our nightly viewing: an individual waging...