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...paper, the 1968-69 season, which opens this week, looks indistinguishable from 1967-68. Onscreen, viewers will find a few new wrinkles. Bonanza, Petticoat Junction, The Big Valley, The Andy Griffith Show and My Three Sons encouraged a trend by all featuring at least one character who was a widow or a widower. This year the trend becomes a stampede. In addition, the big, new angle is interracial - there is a vast increase in roles played by Ne groes. Whether all this signifies a vast improvement in entertainment is, of course, problematical...
...soaper got right down to the nubby-grubby of everyday existence - suicide attempts (The Doctors), incestuous desires (Days of Our Lives) and various physical com plaints, such as "uterine inertia" (An other World). The trouble with such contemporary traumas is that no one does much about them onscreen; the folks just sit around talking about their problems and drinking black coffee in the kitchen. The only time there is any live action in the typical soaper, it seems, is Friday. That's when the writ ers always slip in the "tease" that will lure the listeners back on Monday...
...Whether it be on the stage or onscreen, Sandy Dennis projects a quiet power, a profound dramatic intensity that overwhelms...
...birds not at all but drove Jane off to a hospital with a fever and acute nausea. After three days of rest Jane returned to work, finally finished the scene with the aid of even larger fans and a flock of peckish lovebirds. It would all come out onscreen, said Roger, as a "whimsical, lyrical outlook toward sex in the year...
...been six years since he danced onscreen in The Pleasure of His Company, and he has done little but a few TV specials, which take him a mere matter of weeks to rehearse. These obviously left him too much free time and energy, so last week Fred Astaire, 68, went back to work in another movie. Signed for the lead in Warner Bros. $4,000,000 version of the 1947 Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, Astaire as usual is choreographing all his own numbers, as usual is going into training like a prizefighter to get the old bones...