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...created her first serial, Search for Tomorrow, and moved to Philadelphia after marrying Bob Nixon, a Chrysler executive. The lone child of divorced parents, Agnes craved a big family. Soon, she recalls, "I was doing a 15-minute show at home and having babies and rearing them [four in all]. It was a cottage industry. I was just this strange mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia who wrote soap operas. And then it grew like Topsy and I sort of grew with it." As she grew, she also forced soap opera to grow...
...bandwagon rolls on with Trading Places, a loose-limbed comedy in which Lowlife Eddie and Blueblood Dan Aykroyd are forced to switch roles, and then get even with the two greedy geezers who did them dirt. It is the summer's lone comedy hit, grossing $30 million in its first three weeks of release. "Eddie is definitely a movie star now," says Landis. "And he's too smart not to realize how good he is." Paramount realizes too. Last week the studio signed Eddie to an exclusive five-picture deal with a $15 million guarantee. This puts...
...also hilarious, the most outrageous character on television. He is Bill Bittinger, a Buffalo talk-show host, brilliantly played by Dabney Coleman, on NBC's new comedy series Buffalo Bill. The character is that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would snatch it from them...
...Easter Monday, more than a dozen men carrying shotguns and pistols climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from...
Trudeau's presence set the lone for the afternoon's program in which all three student speakers sprinkled their remarks with references to the characters of his Doonesbury strip. Like Trudeau the student speakers also referred to the supposed apathy among today's youth toward everything but personal fulfillment...