Original Publication: Newsweek – March 7, 1977. TV producers Norman Lear (“All in the Family”) and Grant Tinker (“Mary Tyler Moore”) have ruled the airwaves as the Kings of Sitcom…
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Maureen Orth went to Hollywood to report on “The Gong Show” and to her amazement was asked if she wanted to perform. She said yes, went on the show – and here is here report.
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek — January 31, 1977 If Woody Allen is the archetypal East Coast neurotic, Steve Martin is the ultimate West Coast wacko. What other comedian spent much of…
Read moreOriginal Publication, Newsweek December 20, 1976 MAUREEN ORTH with JANET HUCK in Los Angeles He treads softly in Guccis and wields one of the toughest fists in show business. “I’m…
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Original Publication Newsweek: December 20, 1976. John Denver is perched guru-like on a chaise lounge at his luxurious borrowed beach house in Malibu, California. The end of the swimming pool is…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, November 29, 1976 Maureen Orth with Vern E. Smith in New Orleans Onstage at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans, a giant silver spaceship descended from a…
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