Show 1 t i t d I. I y 49 1 t J M n l a V x err P MM B i Fred Astaire stars as a nimble-footed nimble Irish gentleman who plants a aJ J pot of gold near Fort Knox and waits for it to grow like America in RAINBOW a musical presentation on NBC Thursday 01 Night at atthe the Movies' Movies August 11 Fj f. f 1 1 11 U d 1 a. a V. V J f ra 1 4 r wo With Goofy in the drivers driver's seat Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck prepare for a joyous vacation far away from the daily grind of city life in On Vacation With Mickey Mouse v and Friends Friends' on TVs NBC THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Sunday August 13 i J k uC Q ap BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT Norman Lear the producer who brought us his famed Alt All Allin In The Family and Mary Hartman Mary Hartman has now entered the childrens children's field His company TAT Communications is now filming The New Little Rascals Like Rascals will go into national syndication rather than being offered to the networks for their acceptance The rumor around TV- TV land is that Johnny Carson will quit the Tonight Show on the anniversary of the show October Weve We've also learned that David Brenner is being considered as his replacement I wonder what happened to Chevy Chase David is really realty doing his homework too He watches the show every night studies the tapes of each of the 24 times he hosted and prides himself that he never repeated a joke on those occasions when he sat in for Johnny Johnny- Brenner has also been careful to obey the unwritten unwritten unwritten un un- written law not to appear on TVs TV's Saturday Night Live Uve Peter Strauss says that Rich Man Poor Man Manwill Manwill will definitely not be back on TV next season The decision is reported to have been made despite howls of protest from thousands of angry fans fans- Strauss is evidently fed up with the character who transformed him from a poor man into a rich man The man The actors actor's marriage to florist wife Beverly almost broke up because of pressures caused by the show it its it-it's its it's over he told me The last time viewers saw me I was lying dead on the Las Vegas strip And Im I'm staying dead dead Im im i'm not playing possum EYE ON TV TV heroes Kojak and Archie Bunker arid and others who slur n slop the proper use of the English e language are turning children into bumbling morons t says speech tutor Mrs Susan Cairns Calms phrases Catch-phrases like like- o 1 Who loves ya yap baby are running rampant in school playgrounds and classes TV jargon has become becom everyday language for the kids she told me They watch TV for such long periods that there is no incentive to talk Family conversations seem to have gone out of fashion fashion- The only other people kids converse with are their friends friends and and they talk the same way Michael Ansara come on on you remember Cochise on Broken Arrow just married his longtime girlfriend Beverly Kushida Now heres here's the kicker Barbara Eden surety Surely you remember I Dream of Jeannie his wife ex sent Bev a telegram wishing her as many happy years with Michael as she had There was no maliciousness Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara and Michael are still friendly INSIDE THE TUBE In Hawaii with Charlies Angels' Angels it rained torrents every day Maybe that's what made Angel Jaclyn Smith so homesick that she was near tears Or might she be missing Dennis Cole And Angel Kate Jackson has been hearing a lot of long-distance long chatting from Burt Reynolds who's giving Warren Beatty some competition there TV David Soul Hutch of and Hutch who'd just as soon punch someone on the screen as talk to him him is really a pussy cat in rea real reaf life So says beautiful Lynne Marta the girt girl David announced announced announced an an- would soon become the third Mrs Soul Mrs Soul Davidis David is such a bumbling professor type Lynne told me me who has lived with Soul for the past three years in a tiny cottage in the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oakes Oakes- And his announcement publicly that he was to marry me took not only his fans but me by surprise as well we well well-As As of now Im I'm not so sure of what I want to do do- Ive I've been trying to figure out my feelings ever since David made his surprise announcement V Vr r Y Mickey Rooney left plays the uncle of a pair of aspiring writer- writer singers whom the devils devil's son abe Gite Doff Dell tempts with success In A YEAR AT THE TOP comedy series premiering Friday Aug 5 on or CBS |