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BORN. To Valerie Velardi, 31, ballet dancer, and her husband of five years, Robin Williams, 30, hyperkinetic comic actor (Popeye, The World According to Garp and TV's Mork and Mindy): their first child, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Zachary. Weight...
...Family stands to bring in about $100 million in syndication fees. This season, Dynasty (Dallas in Denver) has hit its form, and Bob Newhart's new comedy series broke into the top ten, but the networks have not come up with a superhit since Dallas and Mork and Mindy, both of which premiered in 1978. Says former TV Producer Norman Lear (All in the Family, Mary Hartman): "A show becomes a big hit because it is dynamically different. But the networks are afraid of different. They want carbon-copy television." To the programming chiefs, says Washington Post TV Critic...
Examing the phenomenon of alien encounters, "E. T. and Friends Magical Movie Visitors," features film clips from several science fiction films, and interviews with earthlings who claim to have met extra-terrestrials. Robin Williams, himself the former alien of "Mork and Mindy" fame, hosts the hour-long show. Joining E. T. and Williams are a squad of Coneheads from the original "Saturday Night Live," as well as other weird-lookers from the galaxy of cancelled TV series...
...comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom humor, like water and sex, is something that is more enjoyable when it is free...
...Garp debuts today, and every critic still ashamed over having praised the novel now has an opportunity to slam the blood and guts and love which follow T.S. Garp from his less-than-dignified conception through the notoriety and fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate on film...