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...this, however, for Moore: if she's going to break her wrist, she will at least get her scene. And indeed the three-point landing makes it into Mary and Rhoda, the long-awaited--if ultimately disappointing--movie that revisits one of the most renowned friendships in TV. Having won an Oscar nomination (Ordinary People) and tried some unsuccessful series (e.g., New York News) since signing off as The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Richards in 1977, Moore two years ago began shopping around the idea of reviving the working-woman icon and her eccentric best pal, Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie...
...tension between wish and reality is written all over Mary and Rhoda, which, for a movie that's not a pilot, looks precisely like one. Granted, it's harsh to compare the movie with seven years of a sitcom great. Yet its script begs the comparison shamelessly. As on MTM, Mary is starting over after a longtime relationship (in New York City, after her Congressman husband's death) and lands a job in TV with an arrogant boss--this time a 33-year-old punk who's made his reputation with ghoulish reality shows...
...familiar," she said. That was then. Two years ago, Moore and VALERIE HARPER tried to sell ABC on a sitcom reprising their Mary Tyler Moore Show characters. The network passed, but it green-lighted a movie, and last week Moore and Harper were in New York City filming Mary & Rhoda, which will air during the February sweeps. In the movie, Mary and Rhoda Morgenstern reunite two decades after leaving Minneapolis. They're single again, with Felicity-esque daughters. If viewers tune in, they may even get a regular slot...
...this time last year to much fanfare, was the exception. Those shuffling off the screen this year are being pushed by precipitous ratings drops. Was it a change in the zeitgeist? The fact that they had enough episodes for syndication (all had more than 100)? Or did each, like Rhoda, make a fatal flub...
...alertness in her eyes and the quick, broad smile are disconnected. At the age of 63, she is at the bottom of her field--scientist, explorer, advocate. This year she is explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, which has a $5 million grant from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to launch the five-year Sustainable Seas Expeditions project. As its leader, Earle will use a new, highly maneuverable submarine to study the waters of the 12 national marine sanctuaries...