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...mythology, New York is Sin City: garbage on the streets, porno on the screens and larceny in the heart. And New York City women? Talk about pushy. Take Rhoda. Please. She was meant to be the quintessential New York woman, and she stood out like a kosher pickle on Minneapolis white bread. In the land of sitcoms, New York has rarely been a laughing matter. In fact, there has not been a successful sitcom set in the Big Apple since Taxi drove onto the screen in 1978, and with the exception of Rhoda no single woman has found a home...
...giddy glitches that usually bedeviled Mary Richards, her old TV alter ego. After the traditional Jewish ceremony (Moore, a Catholic, took instruction in Judaism but has not converted to her husband's faith), the bride cut the cake for some 300 guests, including such MTM alumni as Valerie ("Rhoda") Harper, Cloris Leachman and Ted Knight. Said Harper: "Rhoda would have been jealous that Mary married a Jewish doctor...
...with very few exceptions, able and often exceptional. Mitchum, overaged and overweight as he is, is real and rocklike. As the actor says, "Pug sort of functions as a pylon at an air race. Everything revolves around him." Bergen is touching as the flighty, shallow but nonetheless sympathetic Rhoda; Houseman, who has been blessed with a much more amiable character than he usually portrays, is convincing as the civilized survivor of an ancient society who cannot believe that the barbarians have finally broken through the gates; and Vincent brings to the part of Byron a force of vitality...
Says Actress Valerie Harper, who as TV's Rhoda Morgenstern lost weight and grew muscles while the home audience watched: "Now you can buy $50,000 worth of the no-makeup look." That look is an increasingly profitable part of the clothing industry: Danskin, leading manufacturer of tights and leotards, does about $100 million in sales annually. In the Sunbelt, where warm weather discourages women from buying next season's Paris original, jock chic is rampant. With men and women flaunting tanned, exercised bodies, the fashion is sportswear: headbands, tank tops, jogging shorts and running shoes. In offices...
These setbacks come as policy feuds within the organization have boiled into the open. In December more than 80% of 160 Newspaper Guild members signed a petition demanding the ouster of Rhoda H. Karpatkin as executive director of Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of the magazine. The protesters were incensed over what they considered Karpatkin's shaky financial judgment. Their demand, however, was firmly rebuffed...