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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mork appeared first when Robin played him in a one-shot appearance on Happy Days. The mail response to the episode was so large that a spin-off series was created for Williams. Mork & Mindy was a hit even before it went on the air. Director Howard Storm recalls the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Williams finds TV's ratings struggle frightening. This season he became fascinated by a short-lived NBC sitcom, Who's Watching the Kids?, that was shot on a lot near Mork. "I saw its birth and death," he says wistfully. "I watched people fight for it. It is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Previous productions broke off after Lulu, imprisoned for murdering Schon, escapes and takes up a fugitive life with Schon's son and other admirers. The third act reveals that Berg rounded off the story with telling symmetry. Lulu descends through a succession of men and social strata that mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Is the Toast of Paris | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

The movie has been adapted by Mark Medoff from his own 1973 off-Broadway play. Like so many well-made American dramas, it is a long day's journey into night: the characters slowly reveal the sad truths of their misbegotten lives. The difference between Medoff s play and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out to Lunch | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

The return to China, as head of a U.S. economic mission, was a sentimental journey for Blumenthal. He lived in Shanghai as a refugee from Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1947, much of the time inside the European ghetto, twelve blocks long by five blocks wide, where his father was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Return of the Shanghai Kid | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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