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...Love Boat fans will have to wait until thisafternoon for Rep. Fred Grandy '70 (R-Iowa), whoplayed Gopher on the popular sitcom, to addressthe Model Congress. The newly-elected congressmanwas slated to appear last night but his flight wasdelayed, said Model Congress officials
...BASH (ABC). Producer Danny Arnold (Barney Miller) may have set out to make a sitcom. But what he came up with was a moody tragicomedy on loneliness. Peter Boyle was outstanding as a grumpy cop in this undeservedly short-lived series...
NEWHART (CBS). He gets better with age. Bob plays a beleaguered innkeeper in this, his second successful sitcom, which has just entered its terrific phase. Two major reasons: Peter Scolari and Julia Duffy as spoiled brats in love...
More important, Newhart is running with the easy, confident stride of a TV series at the peak of its form. Success has come without any of the usual sitcom crutches: not a single regular character is a wisecracking child, irreverent senior citizen or cute extraterrestrial. "Let's just say we're not a high-impact comedy like Laverne and Shirley," says Newhart, 57. "We give the audience credit for having some intelligence." Newhart's leisurely, low- voltage style sets the tone; instead of rapid-fire gag lines, he opts for shrewdly timed pauses, stammers and deadpan understatement. He gets...
...that she would be insulted and harassed here at Harvard, in the liberal North. I live in the deep South and have come to expect such despicable behavior there. The parents of a friend of mine there, for example, did not allow him to watch The Jeffersons because the sitcom was about a Black family...