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...trusted (see following story). Carter's own pollster, Patrick Caddell, finds that the President is making "major inroads" among groups of voters who gave him lukewarm support during the election, including Jews, blue-collar ethnics and small businessmen. Carter could pick up still more support after NBC broadcasts on April 14 a tape of one of his days in the White House...
...love on Lucy than there used to be? No, Actress Lucille Ball, 65, still boasts the same trim figure she had when she first came to Hollywood as a Goldwyn Girl in 1934. But to impersonate Singer Sophie Tucker on Bob Hope's All-Star Tribute to Vaudeville (NBC, March 25), Ball donned a special "fat suit." "I always admired Sophie's elegant arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast...
...speaking?" the way they said "dyno-mite" like Good Times' Jimmy Walker last year. Schlatter left Laugh-In in 1972, and the show, reflecting the strait-laced Nixon years, had less room for Tomlin's wild, irreverent humor. Before it folded in 1973, she was suing NBC to be released...
CATHERINE MACKIN, 38, covers Capitol Hill for NBC all week and then flies to New York to anchor the Sunday night news, which she took over last summer. It is a demanding regimen, but it does not bother Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite...
Some critics allege that these and other video Valkyries are making it on their looks, a charge that could also be applied to men in TV. NBC'S Mackin feels that "the cosmetic end of TV is a burden for women. Viewers are tougher on us. They look at our clothes more closely than at a man's." ABC'S Osmer recalls the day in Washington when the wind kept messing up her hair, as well as her stand-up report; a male correspondent helpfully produced a can of hair spray from his attaché case...