Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only be seen frontally. When this is inflicted on pieces like the exquisite (and much underrated) cubist sculptures of John Storrs, an artist who should have been rehabilitated by the show, it borders on vandalism. Harsh blasts of light transmute rows of neoclassical and Victorian marbles into white soap. A group of David Smiths is gussied up with a 50-ft. photomural of what purports to be, but is not, the landscape around his studio at Bolton Landing. Such arbitrary window dressing annuls the difference between museums and show...
Last January came Lear's most tantalizing show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman-MHII, as it is known in the trade-the parody soap opera. Because the networks, according to Lear, were afraid of the freaky show, MH II is syndicated to almost 100 stations. It often runs late in the evening and is thereby changing the viewing habits of millions of Americans. (In Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where it appears at 11 p.m., it regularly beats out one or two news shows.) Its success, confounding the early critics (including TIME), fills Lear with unholy...
...love Mary Hartman," he told TIME'S Leo Janos last week. "It's outrageous . . . outrageous! And the freedom! It's a story that goes on forever. No first-act curtain to worry about; no second-act resolution scene. Soap opera is a hell of an exciting form. Especially the way we are doing it, on two levels. Funny on one level and an intense human interest story on the other...
...Bionic Woman spinoff. Silverman's impact on ABC itself is obvious. Already the network exudes a No. 1 brand of confidence. Now the hot $m_ |f-entertainers want to be at ABC. More than 50 projects, including a new Norman Lear sitcom starring Nancy Walker and an evening soap by Agnes Nixon (All My Children), are being considered by Silverman in a familiar CBS pattern -no commitments, just a lot of promising developments...
...deals are profitable only with a minimum of 100 shows. Says Bruce Geller, producer of Mannix, "It's all very confusing at the moment. No one really knows what will or will not work. Maybe television will be a little more experimental-trying to serialize novels, produce adult soap-opera concepts in prime time-than has been the case in recent years." The question remains whether that, in turn, will lead to better programs...