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...limitations, NBC's series, A Tribute to American Theater, makes a highly auspicious debut with Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Dec. 6, 9 p.m. E.S.T.). Laurence Olivier, who is the artistic producer for all of the programs, plays Big Daddy. Maureen Stapleton is Big Mama, Natalie Wood has the role of Maggie the Cat, and Robert Wagner plays Brick, Maggie's sexually abstinent husband and Big Daddy's favorite son. They all give admirably strong and well-defined performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIEWPOINTS:: Fate Strikes the Delta | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Mama's Boy. In Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Alma (Betsy Palmer) does not repress or sublimate her passion for John (David Selby), but her relatively outspoken attempts to seduce him are fluttery and amateurish. John, on the other hand, has been turned into a too-decent-by-half mama's boy. He has lost his father in this reincarnation and gained a naggingly intrusive, oppressively possessive mother (Nan Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bad Case of the Fantods | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Rock fans remember her as the winsome, barefooted young Mama belting out pop hits with the Mamas and the Papas a decade ago. In London these days, Michelle Phillips, 32, is trying a different tune, playing Natacha Rambova, the haughty wife of the legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. With Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev, 38, cast as Valentino, the relationship is somewhat different from the original. The driven Rambova constantly badgered her "Rodolpho" to make bigger films, then walked out on him in a fit of pique. This time round, it's Nureyev who keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1976 | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...bachelor, Dapper humorously flirts with most of the white women he meets, including Wallace's sister-in-law. He seems preoccupied with homosexuals and black women, often commenting on their looks or just impolitely staring, saying "that black cunt" or "There goes a big red mama...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Rider on a Storm | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

...Mama, quit peeling them peaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/music: A Honky -Tonk Man | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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