Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of his memoirs. One of the West Coast's top literary agents, Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, said that Nixon has signed a contract with him to negotiate with publishers. Lazar, 67, represents such luminaries as Vladimir Nabokov, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Irwin Shaw, Theodore White, Françoise Sagan and Billy Wilder. Lazar expects Nixon to write three volumes. The first will trace his life through his first term as President; the second will cover his foreign policy achievements and contacts with world leaders; the third will deal with Watergate. "I think he's going to tell one of the great stories...
...rated The Waltons' family-bond wagon. ABC's The New Land, based on the movie, will star Scott Thomas and Bonnie Bedelia as Scandinavian emigrants settling in Minnesota, circa 1858. NBC's Little House on the Prairie, based on the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls Wilder, will begin with "restless but resourceful" Michael Landon (Bonanza), his perfect wife (Karen Grassle) and their three adorable daughters also settling in Minnesota...
...society, always exaggerated, had largely spent itself. But Nixon chose to run against the 1960s - against radicalism, excess, permissiveness - a strategy in which he was greatly aided by McGovern's ill-considered and irresponsible economic schemes, and by the vaguely "revolutionary" slogans put about by some of his wilder and woollier supporters...
Thursday's Game (1974). A made-for-TV movie, but it sounds good. (Anything with Gene Wilder, Rob Reiner, Valerie Harper and Bob Newhart couldn't be all bad.) This is about a game show producer who gets depressed, or something like that. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
Jack Lemmon deserved to be named best actor years ago for Billy Wilder's The Apartment --he won the award for Save the Tiger this year, where he plays a businessman who's shrewdly shady activities are justified, in the film's scheme of things, by the pressures around...