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...were redress that imbalance. But the story of how the 30-year marriage of Steelworker Harry Mackenzie (Hackman in another solid performance) and his wife Kate (Ellen Burstyn) sunders has another dimension. Scenarist Welland (who wrote Chariots of Fire with another kind of class consciousness) and Director Yorkin (who created All in the Family with Norman Lear) want to use the Mackenzies' disorder to explore sympathetically an entirely unfashionable layer of life...
...Rockford Files, Rockford never had feelings. He only solved crimes," says Dawn Prestwich, who created Bickford (8 p.m. E.T., debuts Sept. 23) together with Nicole Yorkin. "Until now, that's been the traditional male role on television." Few men in TV dramas have been so explicitly defined in terms of their maleness as Professor Max Bickford (Richard Dreyfuss). He describes himself as a man who "always surrounded himself with women." He teaches American culture at a women's college, has a female boss and believes that women are "more thoughtful, maybe even a little smarter, than most...
...whom circumstance is threatening to turn into an angry white male. But while Bickford often seems whiny--the angst of the tenured baby boomer doesn't ring tragic to many folks--at least it promises to take Max into new emotional territory for a man. And then some. Dreyfuss, Yorkin says, "is not afraid to be shown looking at his own paunch in the mirror and feeling...
...Above all, though, Yorkin and Lear yearn to make it in the movies. The failure that each nurses most lovingly is a film. With Yorkin it is "Start the Revolution Without Me," a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is "Cold Turkey," a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always caught...
...their timing is improving. Yorkin has directed, and Lear has partly written, a new movie due out early next year. It stars Ryan O'Neal as a burglar whose passion, as luck would have it, is chess. The original title was "The Thief Who Came to Dinner." Now, their eyes aglow at the thought of the mania sweeping the country after the Fischer-Spassky match in Iceland, Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title...