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...Taylor cheats on his wife. Mr. Harper is a drunk. Widow Jones cavorts without pulling down her window shades. It would all be everyday grist for Peyton Place but, blaring out of radios and jukeboxes, this titillating recital is selling 3,000,000 records. It is Harper Valley P.T.A., a thumping, country-flavored song about a smalltown widow. Her high skirts and low life are criticized by the P.T.A. at her teen-age daughter's school. She storms into the P.T.A. meeting and graphically exposes the membership as a bunch of hypocrites...
Divorced. By Mia Farrow, 23, wispy ex-star of TV's Peyton Place, who is now making it big in movies (latest: Rosemary's Baby); Frank Sinatra, 52; on grounds of cruelty and incompatibility; after two years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Coram, 30, an aggressive and productive reporter who was fired last year by the Atlanta Journal for "unethical practice in obtaining news." His offense had been to deceive a state liquor-control officer; to get a story about nightclub raids, Coram told the officer that his superior, Revenue Commissioner Peyton Hawes, wanted him to tell all. The officer believed Coram and, without checking with Hawes, proceeded to talk...
Unfortunately, few of the roles for Negroes that are being so hurriedly written into next fall's shows will have any individuality or credibility. Executive Producer Paul Monash, who next month will bring the first Negro family onto Peyton Place, says: "All the Negroes I've seen on TV are colorless-absolutely devoid of character, humor or idiom. They are prideless Negroes, castrated men and desexed females. These people are really gilded Rochesters...
...Peyton Place (pop. approx. 10,000), the first black will be a neurosurgeon. In NBC's I Spy, Bob Gulp loves his way round the world, while Co-star Bill Cosby enjoys only an occasional clinch-with a black girl...