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Show JOHNNY WEIS HIS BED.vOiNNy WETS HIS BED Star Profile/By Peer J. Oppenheimer JOHNNY Wersus BED.JQenny Mary Tyler Moore: From Mini-Slump To Big Comeback Saysa friend, ‘Mary is ambitious, but she has never been a bore aboutit.” Andthat’s the saving grace. ... After spending most of her 33 years trying to deal with a lonely childhood, a rebellious adolescence, a disillusioning first marriage when she was 17 and the interim years of struggle for recognition, Mary Tyler Moore is convinced she’sfinally happy. Being secure as the wife (since 1963) of Grant Tinker, ex-television executive- turned-producer, and mother of 15year-old Richard (byher first marriage), has a lot to do with her contentment. But most significant is the fact that Mary—star of the highly rated TV seTies, the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” a product of her own MTM Production Company—is now the success she has always dreamed of being. When Mary first captured TV audiences as Laura Petrie, the very human first I blamed myself for the ‘Tiffany’s’ fiasco-—probably because I never had confidence in myself and my ability.” mained dissatisfied with herself in such Once she graduated and was receiving such an astronomicai salary, Mary films as “Don’t Just Stand There,” thought she had life pretty well under “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good” and “Change of Habit.” When CBS céntrol. She decided to marry Richard She returned to Hollywood and re- asked Mary to star in her own series, she could hardly believe it. “I wanted to —but I wasn’t sure whether I could, or whether I should! I certainly wasn’t going to turn them down!” Once production started, however, Mary began to relax for the first time in years. Referring to ner production unit, Mary said, “We respect one an- other, and we have a lot of fun. I could sense the same feeling building on the set that we had on Dick’s show,and that made that one work well for so Jong.” Mary’slife has always pivoted around her career. In a way,it is an obsession. Said a friend, “Mary is ambitious, but I thought his glow had just rubbed off on me.” Forfive years she felt like a spill-over from Dick. She wanted to know whether she could succeed—real- she’s never a bore aboutit.” And that’s the saving grace. Mary’s nagging ambition was noticeable when she was a child and pleaded to be allowed to take extra dancing lessons after school. The harder she worked to assure herself she was the best, the less time she had for friends and fam- ly succeed—on her own. ily. A few years after the family moved When Mary was offered a sevenyear contract at Universal at the closing of Dick’s show, she took it, and was miscast as the shy darling in “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” It was a devastating experience. “I am simply not geared for movie-making.” So Mary decided to tackle Broadway. She got a year off from the studio, moved to New York with Grant and Richard and nearly killed herself trying to make a hit out of the disastrous to Los Angeles from Brooklyn—Mary was eight at the time—she was convinced her parents really didn’t want and very vivacious wife of Dick Van Dyke on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” she suspected her success was due to Dick’s charisma. “He was so fantastic, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” Richard Cham- berlain, another refugee from TV, was her costar in the ill-fated play. Thanks to a tenacious streak that has never let her deviate from her desire to be a success, Mary mended quickly. “At She gave up the party, got the job and received $2,000 a day for dancing around some kitchen appliances. her. Both of them worked, her mother as a telephone operator and her father for the Edison Company. When her father was home, he was an adamant disciplinarian. Her mother tried to compensate by being overly indulgent. As a result, Mary didn’t know what was ex- pected of her, so when she was 14, she moved in for a while with an aunt. Even the night of graduation, when a girl usually thinks about her new dress and a date for the prom, Mary was more concerned about getting a good night’s sleep because she was to audition the next day for a TV commercial. Nowl Bedwetting Can be Ended Pacific Internationai Has Ended Bedwetting For Hundreds Of Thousands In The Past 20 Years Meeker, “the boy pext door.” Looking back, she admits that, in a way, it was an act of defiance aimedat her parents. A yearlater her son was born. Neither squelched her ambition. Mary still want- ed a career in show business. Mary’sfirst break came when she was cast as Sam on “The Richard Diamond Show,” back in 1959. As a gimmick, only her legs were seen. After 13 weeks When children discover that a playmate wets his bed, the result can be merciless teasing and serious psychological problems. Theentire family can be affected. The cost and work of taking care of a bedwetting child can cause friction and irritability among parents. It is quite possible that your child will EVENTUALLY outgrow bedwetting, but what happens until that time comes? Medical authorities have stated that a bedwetting child feels that he is a disgrace to his family. Statistics prove that a bedwetting child achieves below his real ability in school. And the child is embarrassed and ashamed. But, now, bedwetting, when not caused by organic defect ordisease, can be ended.Safely. Permanently. Our method is endorsed by many doctors. Read their statements in our 16 page brochure: “Is There A Solution?”’ Also read what other people say who have had the same problem. Send this coupon for your free copy. No cost or obi of that, Mary, fed up with nobody knowing the appendages were hers, lefi to do guest shots on, “77 Sunset Strip,” “Hawaiian Eye” and “Bachelor Father.” Finally she landed the role of Laura Petrie. But even that five-year success didn’t satisfy her. Like most TV actresses, she wanted a crack at making movies. It was disaprointing for her to discover that she didn’t click on the big screen as she had on TV,and it was also a shock for her to realize that she really didn’t like making movies: “But I had to make movies before I learned whatit was about making them I didn’t like.” Grant Tinker fell in love with and married Mary while she was doing “The Dick Van DykeShow.” Although he doesn’t feel that Mary’s career should be the center of their lives, he is content to stay in the background. Right now, everything is coming up roses for Mary.“I eajoy life more than I ever did,” she says. “I've always taken things to heart, but I am very resilient, and I’ve learned to put things in their proper place and forget them.” As Mary’s show steadily climbs on the rating chart, she says, “It is as if I've comeback to life. I feel I am fulfilling a real function: I am making people laugh. And I am proud of what I am doing. I spent too many years being unhappy. 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