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Show TV TATTLE Danny remembers Danny Thomas, who stars as a father who has problems adjusting to the fact that his daughter is a grown woman on ABC's "I'm a Big Girl Now," has had experience with the same situation in real life. "In the show I'm a dentist whose wife has gone off to Spain with my best friend," he says. "I move in with my daughter (Diana Canova) who is recently divorced, and, immediately, I start ordering her around and nagging at her as if she were still a kid. She's a grown woman with a daughter daugh-ter of her own now. Part of the comedy occurs when she puts me in mv place." Thomas had a similar real-life real-life confrontation with his own daughter, actress Mario Thomas, and he tells the story with custo. j "When Mario first started talking ;,about being an actress, I said, 'No, no, no go to college," he says. "So she went to college and when she graduated, she handed me her diploma and said, 'This is for you. Now I want to do what I want to do.' "I gave her a long lecture on how few performers make any money at all, and she looked me in the eye and said, 'One of these days you'll want me for something and you won't be able to afford me.' And do you know, that's come true. One of my companies wanted her to star in a film recently and her price was too high. Isn't that wonderful?" Intro leads to wedding bells Johnny Carson played Cupid three years ago and didn't even realize it. While hosting NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" on Nov. 9, 1977, he asked one of his guests, McLean Stevenson, if he was dating anyone in particular. "No," said Stevenson, "but I'd sure like to meet one of your new talent coordinators, Ginny Fosdick." Carson proceeded to bring Ms. Fosdick on camera and introduced her to Stevenson. "We dated for three years," she said, "and recently decided decid-ed to get married." They were married on Monday, Dec. 8, at the Chapel-by-t he-Sea, on Florida's Cap-tiva Cap-tiva Island, by the Rev. James Kennedy. Said Carson: "At least one of them is working." Mitch Miller returns Mitch Miller, whose sing-along sing-along musical novelty propelled pro-pelled him to popularity as a recording artist and television personality, will return to prime-time television in a one-hour all-music pilot on NBC early this year. Set to guest-staron the program are pop singer Irene Car a (of "Fame" fame) and Rosemary Clooney. |