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...Women are aggressive and combative, and men are meek and passive. Women ogle waiters and crack bad jokes about sex while their male companions sit and fume. Imagine all that and you know most of what you need to know -or want to know-about All That Glitters, Norman Lear's new syndicated TV soap opera, premiering on 40 stations across the country this week...
...Lear has made a career out of forcing Americans to laugh at their imperfections in such hits as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. In All That Glitters Lear takes on his biggest subject: sexual habits and stereotypes. In everything but anatomy and dress, the women are men and the men are women. Out of that basic conceit flow-or, more precisely, meander-all jokes and situations. "Our premise is simple," explains Lear. "God created Eve first, took out her rib and gave her a companion so she wouldn't be lonely. This...
Director Frank Perry commands everyone's best work. When the evening is over, one longs for the cozy serenity of Lear's blasted heath...
James Earl Jones, the prominent actor who recently starred in a Broadway production of "King Lear," spoke on acting and the difficult early days of his own career at the Mather House Black Table last night...
...Lear-like isolation at the lonely pinnacle of power for Jimmy Carter. At a news conference just before New Year's, Press Secretary Jody Powell let it be known that the President-elect was looking for ways to break out of the "rather strange and unnatural world of staff and press and politicians" he will enter at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "He does not think it's healthy." Powell suggested that other Americans might have some ideas on how Jimmy could keep in touch with jes' folks and urged them to send their cards and letters to People...