Word: watchfulnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yoga class, where Williams invited him to, well, look at the world from a different perspective. "Taking notes was impossible," jokes Willwerth. "The ink in my ballpoint pen wouldn't run uphill." The journalist now sees television from a different angle. Says he: "At night I watch only the specials; during the day I watch the executives outmaneuver each other...
...Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like the snake under the spell of Begin's music." If that music led to an actual treaty, of course, Sadat could hardly resist flying in to sign it -and Khalil would cheerfully stand on the sidelines and watch...
...Paper Chase. "Now we are back to 8 p.m. against Happy Days, and we are going to be pre-empted twice in March. You can't build an audience that way. Bill Paley told me that he is very proud of our show and wishes more people would watch it." Sounding like the character he plays, Houseman adds: "But I'm the specimen that is trotted out to show how respectable CBS is. I am token quality, and I am not overflowing with gratitude...
...began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory; it is a story about a person who goes through a breakdown. And one called Child Stealing, which is about couples getting divorced and stealing the children from their mates...
...shows we have on encourage family viewing together. What we have tried to do, particularly in the initial hour of the evening, is to put on shows that encourage people to sit down and watch with their kids and have a dialogue. Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley really reinforce certain things within a family as they watch together. One of the most pleasing things is that not only is Mork & Mindy an enormous success, but that the social comment and the moral point made at the end of that show every week are just overwhelming. It is a message about...