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This may sound like soap opera, but it is not, for Director Thomas has a way of letting his melodramatic moments flow smoothly into the stream of life. Sexual misadventures are part of that flow, but so is the family dog's being discovered by the movies (Thomas casts him as the pooch romping on the beach at the end of A Man and a Woman), an uncle whose credentials for believing he is an expert on women consist mostly of the fact that his wife deserted him, a grandfather who has the wisdom to tell...
...under to a campaign of demagoguery, innuendo and selective threat by the Rev. Donald Wildmon's Coalition for Better Television [June 29] is an act of cowardice. As long as they withhold their sponsorship from shows that I prefer, I shall clean myself and my household with homemade soap...
...riding. But the silver screen beckoned a couple of years ago, and Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody and I did some pretty steamy love scenes last week. I told Mom I might not give her the air dates for those particular scenes...
There is a danger, of course, that in this burst of enthusiasm Mozart will-or perhaps already has-become overexposed, merchandised like a bar of soap or a political candidate. But while a vogue is transient, music is not, and Mozart's is for the ages. Even music he wrote when he was nine. -By Michael Walsh
...might in a mini-series based on the story of Job. Prime time at NBC was a gutted ghetto, its Nielsen rating for the past season an anemic 16.6, compared with 19.8 for CBS and 18.2 for ABC. Daytime programming, where big money is made to the sound of soap-opera sighs and game-show squeals, was in even worse shape: of 22 daytime shows on the three networks, NBC'S highest rated was 14th. Early-morning and late-night shows, once the twin props of NBC's profits, were under siege or self-destructing: Today took ratings...