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...than they have in the perils of its president Fred Silverman. While Silverman's face adorned the front pages, the network's ratings and profits plummeted. Now, though, as NBC finally unveils its new fare, Silverman may have something to crow about. Two shows-Flamingo Road, a sultrier Dallas, and Harper Valley P. T.A., featuring Barbara Eden in a smile and a wet T shirt-have already buoyed the network's ratings. A third show, which is being tested at 10 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, offers even more. It is a comedy-drama called Hill Street...
...around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments of the evening, Barbara sings "I've Got What You Want," and asks the musical question, "Better dead than wed?" The skit ends without ever revealing what her decision is, but by this time, one is too happy that the skit is over to ask further questions...
Customers want lure, and the little boites are adding token chorus lines, the big spots sultrier ones. Even more, customers want laughs: the comics are the town's brightest notes and biggest draws. (Most ubiquitous gag: "My mother-in-law is the Gestapo in bloomers...
...MOON LOOKS DOWN AND LAUGHS (Billie Halliday; Vocalion). Another capable dusky diseuse, a little sultrier than Miss Fitzgerald (see above...
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