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...Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy Joe's dad, Merle Jeeter-prepares stoically for television's first testicle transplant. As for good ole Merle, he becomes a "born-again" politician. Also tripping into view will be a Miss Tippytoes, a glamorous CB radio freak who Mary thinks has a handle on her husband Tom. Then there is Gore Vidal, who visits Fernwood to see if there is a book in the larger meaning of Mary's breakdown. Says Norman Lear, executive producer of MH2. "My bent as a mature human is to entertain...
...Speed Freak. At 5 ft. 3 in. and 100 Ibs., O'Neil hardly looks hardy enough to be a fall girl. But lack of size is not the most surprising thing about her: O'Neil has been deaf since infancy. Her mother, a full-blooded Cherokee, taught her to lip read and helped her through public school in Wichita Falls, Texas. Always athletic, O'Neil began studying diving at the age of 15 with Dr. Sammy Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Just when her Olympic prospects looked good, she was stricken with spinal meningitis...
Halpern's film tries to explain the period, and of course, it does not. It stretches and sprawls and sometimes the interviews just go flat. But it is by far the best work done on the ugly little freak blacklist, and it is hard to imagine anybody attempting to match the ambitious perspective of Hollywood on Trial. It pulls in Herbert Hoover and Zero Mostel. Joseph McCarthy and Walt Disney, and although it doesn't have the footwork some documentaries do, it is an impressive mosaic...
What did you expect? "Wait till next year", "If only . . .", "I can't understand what happened but here goes my analysis anyway?" No eulogies here. You can get them from the sports trivia freak down the hall or in the back of Fine Arts...
Your article "Mars: The Search Begins" [July 5] was interesting, but I object to being called a "cosmic freak...