Farrah Fawcett Leaving Charlie's Angels Confirmed
TV Mailbag reports Farrah Fawcett Majors in a contract dispute with Spelling-Goldberg and ABC over leaving Charlie's Angels. A new younger sister angel, Cheryl Ladd, will join the cast while Fawcett Majors eyes film work and a court battle seems likely. Garry Moore also retires from To Tell The Truth after temporary hosts.
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Young Boones Indian portrayal fuels CBS series plans
Hollywood insider says defiant producer Ernie Frankel will have Indians play ambiguous roles in Young Dan's Boone. The show aims historical accuracy with period music and on location shoots in Kentucky North Carolina and Tennessee. Actor Rick Moses portrays Daniel Boone with lineage ties explored in dialogue.
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NEH funds second series of The American Short Story
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced a $350,000 grant to begin preproduction on a second series of filmed short stories by renowned American authors. Learning in Focus, Inc. will produce the project, with a one to one private matching grant up to $1 million, enabling a total budget of $2.35 million.
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Focus grant fuels second series of literary adaptation
A producer cited a tremendous challenge in funding a second Focus series but expects corporate support to enable production. Calvin Skaggs leads a literary advisory committee to select eight more stories, building on a prior panel that assisted script review. Authors under consideration include Hawthorne Twain Wharton and Steinbeck among others, with past readings featuring Fitzgerald O’Connor Hemingway Wright James Updike and more. Performers like Ron Howard LeVar Burton Irene Worth and Colleen Dewhurst hosted or appeared in the first series.
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