Show A larger-than-life Snoopy hovers over the cast of CHARLIE BROWN celebrating in live-action and animation the beginning of the year of the The which also marks the start of the year of the characters on Network will be broadcast 5 on Pictured directly under Snoopy are co-hosts Phyllis George and Charles surrounded by the actors who have r portrayed in present or H J H H H f B tm I Ak j I LK 1 H Among the various celebrities and public figures appearing on the NBC News special THE AMERICAN FAMILY AN ENDANGERED who will offer lively and outspoken commentary on the different types of family lifestyles are country singer Loretta Lynn and TV producer Norman The to be telecast 2 on will focus on American family life through a series of intimate portraits that represent many of the changes occurring in family living in our by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL REPORT Ron the star of and Linda the Star of are trying desperately to hoW their tattered marriage They've up repeatedly but now with both their careers great guns they are more determined than ever to make their home We know that It's become our theme Linda told a matter of sheer Our marriage has been through every problem and we're sMI Ron and I could have been a dozen Comedian Jerry Lewis recently admitted c a local Florida TV station that he had been addicted for the last 13 years to the powerful pain and cannot remember much of what happened to him during the period he was taking the Lewis revealed that he had been taking as many as 10 a day to deaden the pain from a chipped spinal Only recently did he free himself from the drug after being treated successfully by neurological specialists in i There is some speculation around that Lewis is speaking out about drugs because he plans to write a book about his Me and from Dean TV BACKSTAGE Randolph star of the recently cancelled TV series Operation has every right to be fuming On the same day he got word of the cancellation of the he learned that his ranch had burned to the ground m California The newest Cheryl Ladd is flying high these days with all her media offers She's wrapped up her own hour-long TV variety special to be shown m has signed to do a dramatic role in an ABC and wiS start recording her second album At a recent photo session Cheryl danced her way through one beach after disco musK to the point where she finally said hard work being a sex 1 walking down understand the proposals of all the ladies who haunt those He smiled politely at each ore and kept i right on walking AM these years after their Sonny and Cher still are working on their community property settlement Nobody even knows how much longer it will take Only one thing seems certain the legal I fees wH amount to a big chunk of it I INSIDE THE TUBE Lucille Ball's usual Christmas trip to Aspen was nixed this year because she sprained an ankle in her own Last she broke her leg on the this little do-it-yourself job right at home saved her the airline fare TV news a 1 Barbara the princess who right on and put her up for the night m a room at Kensington With Barbaras gift having friends m the she even have called the queen and stayed at head- quarters It's got to be Hollywood's youngest Jason son of Barbara Elliott met of at the and Riding Club's equestrian and they've been out on ice cream dates ever since When Fawcett-Majors did that most- rather-discreet layout of pictures for the holiday number of she thought of having the photographers take a pictures for the In Majors alone Be she have the nerve Ks Lee finds her sheltered and secure life shattered when her husband leaves her m an encore presentation on The ABC Monday Night 1 |