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...urgency of women's rights impelled various writers to launch polemics against having kids. It was not an antichild so much as an antiparent movement. Among the voices raised against the tyrannies of automatic motherhood was that of Betty Rollin, who is now a correspondent for NBC News. "Motherhood is in trouble, and it ought to be," she wrote. "A rude question is long overdue: Who needs it?" The feminist Ellen Peck recruited Critic John Simon, TV Performer Hugh Downs and others to form the National Organization for Non-Parents ("None is fun"), devoted to the ideology...
Under the aegis of programming whiz Fred Silverman, NBC has promised, with great fanfare, to improve its original programming. At ten, I caught a pilot of Mrs. Columbo, a detective series about the wife of the character Peter Falk played. So much for originality. The story, however, was a moderately entertaining formula television mystery--just substitute a new title character and rearrange a few details, and it would have been Barnaby Jones or McCloud...
...show will be aired March 2 on NBC...
...other network observers feel that Haley's comet could sputter slightly this time out. While the original Roots aired during a tame ratings period, Roots 11 appears at the peak of a Nielsen "sweeps" month, the all important period that determines advertising rates charged by network affiliate stations. NBC and CBS are spending $2 million each to combat Roots 11's premiere with first-run showings of, respectively, American Graffiti and Marathon Man. Later in the week, NBC'S Fred Silverman will combat Roots with the final episodes of his own miniseries, Backstairs at the White House...
...there is any night when Roots 11 sets a new audience record, it is likely to be Sunday, Feb. 25, when the final episode goes up against a re-run of The Sound of Music (NBC) and Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes (CBS). The victory would be just, for the last two hours of Roots: The Next Generations are about as good as television gets. Besides containing the 8½-minute Brando-Jones confrontation, this segment recounts Haley's collaboration with Malcolm X on the Black Muslim's classic autobiography. As played by Al Freeman Jr. and written...