Word: fred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film is, in many respects, Bette Midler. Rose grew up in warm Florida, Bette in balmy Hawaii, and they were both unhappy. In Bette's family, as she remembers, there was always a lot of angry bellowing from her father, a house painter for the Navy. Even today Fred Midler has not come to see one of her shows, a source of obvious pain to his daughter. But Bette had a hardship even Rose didn't have: hers was the only Jewish family in a neighborhood of Samoans...
Farber is more convincing, even when he sits Barrere down (after dinner with Fred Astaire, the Jimmy Stewarts, Claudette Colbert, the Gregory Pecks and the Henry Fondas) and tells him his life story. It is an epic feature that includes three wives, mistresses, ups, downs and flashbacks from movie history. Farber is present at the Creation. After his theater chain folds he becomes production assistant to Mack Sennett at D.W. Griffith's Biograph studios in New York. Sennett and Mabel Normand carry on their Keystone Kops love affair; Harold Lloyd simulates climbing the side of a building...
Engineer-Architect Fred Dubin, who considers conservation "a national security issue," is currently engaged in 75 energy-conserving projects involving new and existing buildings. He is developing an integrated energy system for large buildings that uses wind and photovoltaic cells for generating electricity, then recaptures waste heat from the cells for heating water. The imaginative Dubin has also conceived a vast underground heating and cooling system for Washington's Market Square Development complex...
...three networks found the conditions unacceptable. They continued bargaining, but only NBC was able to work out a deal: a taped interview in prime time using an Iranian camera crew and resident NBC Correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. A student spokesman who called herself Mary would make unedited opening and closing statements, but the newsmen did not have to clear their questions in advance. Said Tehran Bureau Chief Walter Millis: "That way we could control the interview, and if it really went off the wall, we could kill...
...come up with any runaway hits so far this season, but Fred Silverman's troubled network cannot be counted out. Its winter replacement shows include United States, by the creator of M*A*S*H, and a new dramatic series, Skag, starring Karl Maiden. This summer NBC has the bonanza of the Olympic Games. Says Advertising Executive Chuck Bachrach: "The jury is out on Silverman. If he can maintain his standing until the Olympics, then I think everyone has a shot at No. 1 for next year...