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...consumer is the victim," pro tests Rhoda Karpatkin. "He - no, she - is not respected in the marketplace." Defending the besieged buyer has been a preoccupation of Mrs. Karpatkin, a 43-year-old Manhattan attorney, since she began representing Consumers Union 16 years ago. Now she will make it her full-time occupation, too, as the new executive director of the nonprofit service bureau. She will oversee a staff of 330, extensive product-testing laboratories in sub urban New York, an auto test center hi Connecticut, a law office in Washington, and Consumer Reports, a fact-filled, if plain-Jane monthly...
...think of several reasons why Actress Valerie Harper might want to tone down her good looks with unwashed hair and baggy caftans for her part as Rhoda in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but to appear as "a plausibly bachelor career girl" is not one of them [Sept...
...this piece of candy? I ought to just apply it directly to my hips," Valerie would say, and hundreds of fans would write in describing their own caloric calamities. When she had a confrontation with the TV mother, Jewish mothers all over America volunteered advice. In a few weeks Rhoda Morgenstern became TV's favorite wisecracking overweight spinster, and Valerie Harper emerged as a winningly wacky comic actress. Before the season ended, she won the first of her three Emmy awards, for a show in which Mary fixed up a date for her with an old flame-who showed...
...People identify with Rhoda because she's a loser," says Valerie. "The human condition is one of self-doubt. But Rhoda is able to laugh it off, coming out on top-so she's a victorious loser." By the end of last season, Rhoda had become such a winner that jokes about her weight and looks were discontinued. This season, notes Ed Weinberger, executive producer of the Mary Tyler Moore Show: "we've cut out man-chasing jokes." The reason? Valerie joined Weight Watchers and dropped from 160 Ibs. to 140. Now, in order to remain...
Five years ago, Valerie and her husband moved to Los Angeles. "Things were going well for Dick," she recalls, "but I just sat in Laurel Canyon sobbing and eating Sara Lee cakes all day." That was pre-Rhoda. Now, when the new Mary Tyler Moore season begins next week, her role will be upgraded so that she appears with the star in the weekly opening footage. And recently she branched out to her first film role, playing the Mexican wife of Alan Arkin in the forthcoming Freebie and the Bean. "When they offered me the part," she says, "I said...