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...taping of the 168th and final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, scheduled to air March 19. Even such spin-off graduates as Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman were written into the farewell show. How to end it? New management fires everyone but Anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At a post-taping, post-mortem dinner, Mary and the rest of the cast sat through the outtakes of lines that were blown over the years. Said one bemused cast member: "After watching that, it seemed a miracle we ever got on the air at all." Now that...
...Korean studies. Gregory Henderson, political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul (1958-63) and now a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy characterized the KTA as "a Korean government agency... responsive to the overall political planning being conducted by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)" (Knight News Service, Nov. 19, 1976). What can Harvard's relationship to the KTA and through it to the present regime in South Korea mean? Let me say what it means...
...painfully nice Atlanta schoolteacher (Gladys Knight) journeys to Alaska in pursuit of her ex-husband (Barry Hankerson), who has been enjoying the high wages and low life that go with working on the pipeline. His boss is a sneering meanie who owns half the town, runs a prostitute colony on the side and periodically sabotages construction work in order to prolong the rake-offs he and his colleagues are taking...
...Gladys Knight, lead singer of the Pips, here makes what might loosely be called her acting debut. She moves through her role with an unfailingly cheerful, nose-crinkling smile but with almost none of the slick exuberance and sensuality of her musical performances. Occasionally, when the script calls for her to ride somewhere in a plane or car, the camera dwells on the passing snowscapes and Gladys...
...confab was interrupted by an incessant stream of phone calls from down-at-the heels disco acts. "Hello, Mr. Murdoch, this is Gladys Knight." The voice was unmistakable. She was muttering something about her new solo effort--"Midnight Train to Canberra," I think she said--and how the Pips were a thing of the past. Rupe told her to forget music for the moment: "Honey, I've got bigger things planned for you...Ever hear of New West...