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...Fred Silverman Show was canceled. Silverman, 43, resigned as president of NBC when his new boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 63, refused to guarantee him a free hand. Fred's successor: Grant Tinker, 55, whose MTM Enterprises has produced such classy fare as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant and NBC's own Hill Street Blues. Says TV Consultant Mike Dann: "Tinker has the best reputation in the industry. He's also the first network head in 30 years who's so handsome he could star in his own series." So the show is over...
...called All in the Family: Paul Newman, director; Wife Joanne Woodward, star; Daughter Susan Newman, coproducer. Actually, it's The Shadow Box, an ABC-TV movie adaptation of the prizewinning play about three terminally ill patients and their families. Valerie Harper, the fun ny Ms. Nutzy of the Rhoda series, plays the deadly serious wife of a fast-fading truck driver. Woodward is a boozing broad who sleeps with anyone. That was the director's idea. Says Newman, who last directed his wife twelve years ago in Rachel, Rachel: "I'm sick and tired of seeing...
This is no accident. James Brooks, who invented The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda gets credit for the screenplay of Starting Over, his first feature. The movie entertains, appropriately, for 30 minutes, and then collapses into a contrived drama that begs for a laugh-track...
Actually, most of his characters are really aspects of himself. If Flaubert could say "Madame Bovary, c'est moi,"Brooks could c'est the same of Lou, Ted, Rhoda, Phyllis, Murray and the always resistible Sue Ann. "I've identified with everybody but Mary," he admits. Ted's meeting with his long-lost father, the plot of one of the best MTM shows, was based on Brooks' meeting with his own dad, whom he also had not seen in years. Told that he was in a hospital in New Jersey, Brooks walked...
...that point, as Brooks phrases it, "the inmates took over the asylum." Tinker, the perfect boss, gave his writers nearly total freedom, and the result was not only The MTM Show, but eventually Rhoda and the Lou Grant show. Brooks, Weinberger and a fellow writer-producer, Stan Daniels, went their own amicable way in 1977 and formed the partnership that has produced The Associates and Taxi. If The Associates survives its early low ratings, Brooks' income will rise faster than the price of gold...