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Geffen, whose romantic partners have included Marlo Thomas and Cher, now leads a privileged single life. (His estimated net worth, according to Forbes magazine: $240 million.) In his gallery-like apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the walls are covered with the works of David Hockney, Jasper Johns and other modern masters. From his Malibu beach house, he skims the Pacific in a 20-ft. speedboat. Like most self-made men, however, Geffen is consumed by his work. "My greatest fear is getting bored," he explains. "I'm always taking notes on the imaginary yellow scratch pad in my mind...
...officials decided to shoot segments for the show at Harvard because of the Divinity School's work on issues relating to women and religion, public policy and progressive attitudes towards the study of religion, according to "Today" show producer Marlo Bendau...
Still, every season someone attempts to revive the form. This year's example is Social Security, the bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone...
Consenting Adult, based on Laura Z. Hobson's 1975 novel, is considerably less extreme. The parents are hardly enlightened about their son's homosexuality, but at least they are restrained. The boy's father (Martin Sheen) is crushed and humiliated at the news, and retreats into silence. His mother (Marlo Thomas), though more tolerant, gropes for explanations. "What did we do? What didn't we do?" she cries. The message of this quietly affecting TV movie is that there is no "blame" to be affixed. It is a valuable lesson, one that future TV families in crisis should heed...
...land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home there since Marlo Thomas perkily impersonated That Girl...