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Reporter-style, Trudeau often shows up at Senate hearings, conventions and other news events. Last fall he accompanied President Ford to China, where the cartoonist made diplomatic and aerodynamic history by tossing his Frisbee with NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw atop the Great Wall. Reports the discus thrower: "The wall was too narrow to go for distance, and the wind currents were bad." Trudeau also wrote and illustrated a 3,000-word report on the trip for 75 client papers, and did prliminary sketches for Uncle Duke's arrival last month as Chinese envoy. This week, Trudeau will attend...
...hold. Norman Lear's latest entries, though marginally more professional as productions, are more offensive. His newest target for simple patronization is fat people. THE DUMPLINGS (NBC, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.)-don't you just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...
Astonishingly, Danny Thomas' new show, THE PRACTICE (NBC, Friday, 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.), should not be ignored. Thomas is your basic, crusty old family doctor, and, to be sure, he cannot resist the occasional opportunity to show that he is more than a mere comic. Yet the show's structure is sound. Danny's son is a Park Avenue practitioner whose sharp dress, smooth manner and cleverness about tax shelters drives the old boy to outrage. The gag writing, at least in the opening episode, is plentiful and sharp-up to Mary Tyler Moore standards...
...same may be said of the best of the new variety hours, RICH LITTLE (NBC, Monday 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which uses its star's talents as an impressionist very shrewdly. Since there is no one Little cannot imitate, there is no area of show biz he and his cohorts cannot satirize. The program is up against killer competition (Rhoda and Phyllis) but well worth channel switching to catch...
Actually, the pace is too fast at SN to allow much time for ego. "We literally live the show," says Chevy. "I no longer have a private life." Married at 24 and now divorced, he has a girl friend in California whom he has not seen in two months. NBC executives expect great things of him. Impressed by his bland cheekiness, which suggests the young Bob Hope, they are hyping him as a possible successor to another all-American boy, Johnny Carson. Nothing doing, says Chevy. "I have no desire to spend the rest of my life interviewing actors. That...