Prisoner Without a Name TV portrait trips over excess
NBC Sunday night film about Argentinian publisher Jacobo Timerman depicts his 1977 imprisonment and torture by a military regime. Roy Scheider shines in torment, but director Linda Yellen’s artsy choices and pacing dilute the real thriller energy of the story.
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Fred Rothenberg
New York
Jacobo Timerman
NBC
Linda Yellen
Timerman
Budd Sc
Argentina
Roy Scheider
Liv Ullmann
Scheider
Miss Yellen
Miss Ullmann
Local Fans Line Up For Letterman Taping In hopes Of TV Time
Ray Parada of Queens leads a group to the Letterman show in New York as production staff scout the line for audience participants. Lou Ghirardo, claiming 20 to 27 visits, offers rival advice while most line participants hope for a chance to be on air though the letters segment is ultimately not used. Ruby Maginley and Mark Jansen, selected as potential helpers, wait through the taping and are not called.
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Letterman
Darcy Hetrich
mid-America
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Mark Jansen
Maginley
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Jansen
Eau Claire
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NBC Entertainment
St. Elsewhere
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Tartikoff
Fred Silverman
Tinker
NBC
Networks unveil new season mix with medical shows and light drama
CBS sticks to proven hits adding five new shows led by After M A S H while ABC expands with six hours of new series and NBC reshapes with nine new programs. The A Team creator Stephen J Cannell pitches Roosters and Hardcastle and McCormick as top bets amid computer age thrillers and revived favorites.
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Roosters
NBC
Wyatt Earp
Hardcastle & McCormick
ABC
CBS
Ripley
Matt Houston
Cheers
Family Ties
Remington Steele
St. Elsewhere
Grant Tinker
Brandon Tartikoff
Advice From Page 1B Leads to Surprising Night
The adviser from page 1B counsels a student in a caring tone while noting her quirk of occasionally spending nights with strangers. Mercury reports Briley is especially pleased with the album and its unexpected ending.
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Mercury
Briley
Weekly listing of venues and live music across Eastern Iowa
The Gazette compiles a dense schedule of bars hotels and halls listing nightly acts across cities and venues. It shows performers such as Mark Pence Tracy Price Panhandle Country Odyssey and Lone Star with genres ranging country rock blues reggae. The note closes with a historical reference and the phrase The Gazette will list any regular music or other entertainment in the Eastern Iowa area On this date In 1861 North Carolina voted to secede from the union.
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North Carolina
Beals Ready for Intimate Questions in Hollywood
Hollywood interview scene sees 19 year old Jennifer Beals promoting Flashdance at Yale publicity rounds. Beals says press asked no intimate questions and recalls Marilyn Monroe prank question. She quips Chanel No 9 at bed and notes roommate Jodie Foster.
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Hollywood
Jennifer Beals
Miss Beals
Yale University
Jodie Foster
Dancers as models at Tony Chase fashion show
New York AP reports director-choreographer Tommy Tune ballet star Natalia Makarova and Broadway’s Jessica James modeled at a Tony Chase show at the Roxy. Makarova wore a backless red dress and quipped to the host about the bill.
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New York
Tommy Tune
Natalia Makarova
Broadway
Jessica James
Tony Chase
Roxy
Miss Makarova
Chase
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