Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of his talent, as well as that of the rest of the cast, is wasted, however, because Owen Marshall is nothing more than the lawyer version of the standard doctor series. Although the jargon is different, a number of viewers might not even notice if Owen Marshall and Marcus Welby changed places for a week. The lawyers are all grimly competent-the legal and medical professions are nearly sacrosanct to TV writers-and Owen's clients are almost always innocent. The producers of the series, unfortunately...
...special items as being responsible for most of the gain. "The consumer seems to be spending across the board, and that is when you can count on a good Christmas," says Philip Hawley, president of Broadway-Hale Stores, which owns Bergdorf Goodman's in Manhattan, the six Neiman-Marcus outlets, and 52 stores in California. Many retailers estimate that Christmas sales will run 8% to 10% ahead of last year. Some store managers seem to think that they can sell almost anything...
...sign of the general air of affluence: Neiman-Marcus, avid to appear as the champion of the most conspicuous consumption imaginable, includes in its Christmas catalogue an offering extraordinary even by its standards. It will sell plaster dummies priced at $3,000 each, with a limit of two to a customer; the buyer must lie down for half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with...
...other offenders are Cotton Comes to Harlem and Come Back Charleston Blue, which feature Raymond St. Jacques and Godfrey Cambridge as veteran Harlem detectives. In Cotton a modern day Marcus Garvey is unmasked as a charlatan, while in Charleston Blue a dynamic young black photographer who rids the community of heroin turns out to be using it for his own purposes. Black Americans are implicitly instructed that Pan-Africanist leaders are frauds and that blacks who attempt to serve the community have alternative motives. The thrust of these films is that blacks are incapable of solving their own problems...
...emphatically drawn in. During the season that began last week, programmers will actually be competing with each other to trace the largest number of touchy-and heretofore forbidden -ethnic, sexual and psychological themes. Religious quirks, wife swapping, child abuse, lesbianism, venereal disease-all the old taboos will be toppling. Marcus Welby last week joined the abortion debate with a patient who had not one but two in a single year. An upcoming ABC Movie of the Week will feature Hal Holbrook explaining his homosexuality to his son. Just for laughs, Archie Bunker's daughter will be the victim...