Word: rollin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family. Both the need for population control and the urgency of women's rights impelled various writers to launch polemics against having kids. It was not an antichild so much as an antiparent movement. Among the voices raised against the tyrannies of automatic motherhood was that of Betty Rollin, who is now a correspondent for NBC News. "Motherhood is in trouble, and it ought to be," she wrote. "A rude question is long overdue: Who needs it?" The feminist Ellen Peck recruited Critic John Simon, TV Performer Hugh Downs and others to form the National Organization for Non-Parents...
Recent weeks have seen television biographies of Judy Garland, Abbott and Costello, Television Reporter and Cancer Victim Betty Rollin, Baseball Player Ron LeFlore, and Sally Stanford, a California madam who was elected mayor of Sausalito. Early next year Elvis Presley, who died only 16 months ago, will re-emerge on ABC in the person of Kurt Russell. Elvis Redux will be followed by an ABC-TV movie with Robert Duvall playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. This month, an all-star acting team will impersonate every President from Taft to Eisenhower in NBC's eight-part mini-series called Backstairs...
...Indeed, she may be a better actress than either she or her fans realize. The proof can be found this week when CBS airs a TV movie that features Moore in a rare serious role. The film, First, You Cry, is a strong adaptation of NBC News Correspondent Betty Rollin's book about her recovery from a mastectomy...
Even without its star, First, You Cry would be superior television. The unusually high-powered cast includes Anthony Perkins, Jennifer Warren and Florence Eldridge as Rollin's family and friends. Director George Schaefer helps keep the story from sliding into soap opera. Carmen Culver's script is not afraid to deal frankly with the physiological, psychological, sexual and social cruelties of cancer. It is Moore, however, who gives what is essentially a public service drama its surprisingly fine emotional texture...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...