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...Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic possibilities in herself and her supporting cast. It includes the crusty chief (Edward Asner), the acidulous news writer (Gavin MacLeod), the feline landlady (Cloris Leach-man), the anchor man with the pear-shaped tones and the pea-shaped brain (Ted Knight), plus a gaggle of hilarious performers who have all developed followings of their own. On Mary's shows, nothing is sacred and few things are profane: sex, inflation, urban miseries and small-time office politics are alive and laughing on prime time...
...film version of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, about a beach resort beset by a rampaging shark. The producers would like to keep their star under wraps. "It's like The Exorcist, " says Director Steven Spielberg. "If everybody knew that that kid was really vomiting pea soup, they wouldn't have been shocked." Anyway, much of the movie's shark footage will use real fish. Bruce is for close-up action of limb tearing, boat bashing and man eating that will inspire "40 minutes of uninterrupted terror and excitement...
Flummery. As poor Brian wriggles, and each new page takes a turn for the worse, the author pea-shoots expertly at all of the usual suburban targets. Even when the satire is forced, it is usually funny, as when the suet-brained Wendy tells Brian: "In a relationship you're just screwing the guy. In a meaningful relationship, you're screwing him and also he's your best friend...
...meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium. After an hour and a half downstairs of lager and bitter at a small communal bar, the miners filed into the room, noisy and nervous. Pea green was the color in vogue and woolen socks topped off waterlogged boots. A few sport jackets, an occasional tie, and two or three old brown frayed Stetsons dotted the crowd...
...want to see it before it's banned," explained one proper Bostonian. Many people say that they go simply because everyone warned them not to; others are fascinated by the special effects, like the bedroom scene with the flying furniture, or are curious to see the girl vomiting pea soup or mutilating herself with a crucifix. Still other viewers yearn to be scared. "To be strictly honest, I'm morbid," admitted one college student. "It's a cult; you have to see this movie," said another. "It's the beat 'em and bleed...