Word: subteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that servants and children are smarter than employers or parents. In this case the employer is a moronic Governor (James Noble) who hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold), the series is entirely inhabited by knaves and fools; Harris even drags in a barking Germanic housekeeper (Inga Swenson) who would be more appropriate to Hogan 's Heroes. The restrained Guillaume is a refreshing antidote to the caricatured blacks one normally finds in TV comedy...
...movies about subteen hookers did not, as some people feared, lead to a succession of increasingly pornographic feature films starring moppets...
...sort of clientele that is welcomed at the paneled doors of a typical corporate law firm. It includes runaways, drifters, glue sniffers, battered children and subteen prostitutes, many rejected by their parents and in trouble with the law. Until recently, they had few legal rights and not many more attorneys interested in protecting them...
...surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee socks and track shoes to sing Love Is a Rose and That'll Be the Day. She is dead serious about her music, but the superstar nonsense amuses her; once she kidded her Moonbeam McSwine reputation by posing for an album cover in a barnyard with a couple...
...including candlemaking outfits. Boys want Evel Knievel ($ 15) as well as Big Jim and Big Jack dolls, and girls ask for Baby Alice, a creature who eats gel, which then comes out on its diaper, and a Barbie doll with a real hair dryer run by batteries ($15). The subteen set also wants records: the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Andy and David Williams, and the Carpenters. Unlike their hard-rock counterparts, the young idols come on as shy homebodies, and their songs tend to be sweet and wholesome, like Rick Springfield's latest: "Cos having someone...