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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAJHour Magazine 11:00 AM and Pat Mitchell Gary Collinsworld of the trans- - O explore the sexual with three female inmper- sonators and visit the home of Sidney Sheldon. 12:00 PM 03 Your New Day 00 12:30 PM MOVIE: Busting Two determined policemen choose a dangerous drug dealer as their prime target and Elgo after him. Robert Blake, liott Gould. 1974 NORTH DAVIS LEADER, DECEMBER 25, -, STARVIEW Whatever happened to Mason Williams? Television rediscovers star chemistry By RUTH THOMPSON Because of a proliferation college film clubs and movMOVIE: Night of 2:00 PM revi-I- n in h cnocializine ,e BrothCasablanca The Marx IS apt to be era have a few escapades in Casa- - vals, a about the blanca taking over a hotel. Marx as knowledgeable silent screen magic of Greta Brothers, Lois Collier. 1946 Garbo and John Gilbert or an News 6:00 PM obscure early talkie with Hollywood Squares Leslie Howard and Bette Studio See Davis, as is a senior citizen CD Over Easy who caught them the first Bowl: North time around. 03 Bluebonnet Carolina vs. Texas And except for a few cult or favorites (like 6:30 PM 19 P.M. Magazine campy the same Casablanca) Family Feud solemnity: phrase recurs with Tic Tac Dough Catch this for star chemis-Over Easy try. (D Weeknight It abounded in movies in the Real People To- - great days of the past. Is star-nigh7:00 PM a features a thing of the past? program woman training for the Olympic chemistry answer Its less frequent a to visit a pnvolleyball team, But it still happens, son rodeo and a man who makes nowadaysseason and next tele and vision is where its happening, The newest Liberty Mutual 0 By MASON WILLIAMS (In the late 1960s, . 0O 0 0 ts group of slum orphans are transCity to ported from New York the midwest to find new families and new lives. Jill Eikenberry, Kevin 1979 o Dobson, Manz. Linda Mason Williams emerged as an important figure in television and music circles. He was a prime inspiration to the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which he was both writer and performer, and his Classical Gas was one of the songs of the era. Then, suddenly, he was gone. Now, as head writer for NBCs Saturday Night Live," Williams explains what he has doing over the past decade) I left Hollywood at the height of my career, having almost quit writing entirely and mostly going to lunch with the stars. I was living in one of Howard Hughess old houses, a rambling California most-playe- d O 0O O by adapted for television Ellen Violette and it was long optioned by CBS. It lingered on the shelf because network programers feared the theme lacked popular appeal. The about an special syndicated around the show iswho turns to tears and country the week of Jan. 3,a model booze because the men in her Mr. Griffin and Me, sPins a slender story into a great life want to keep her as vehicle for an hours fun playgirl when she yearns to be thanks to three virtuoso a homebody. Eventually, Y uiuua uumouic then contacted WNti-i- J directorand movie queen whose result: The 24 York. on New out great in her husband walked been hiding performances by Sally years ago. Hes South and a John until Peg man, Lithgow rural ou jn lands her in a Murray. lecture booking iicn rtf thp 0fW1 .:t.. T.,wuia Mafwitfh over-the-hi- ll Rept. of Rose MOVIE: story Washington Square This rise Kelier-stardoto is based on Fanny Brices and her unfortunate love and marriage. Alice Faye a . Tyrone Power, A1 Jolson. 1939 Mammals of the 7:30 PM Sea the music), her thy Parker stories may also DifTrent Strokes son 8:00 PM - be slotted into a future PBb - Willis falls in love for the first shrewdness and their confrontations are something no acttime. .. Taxi ing student should miss. Also in United States for t e the vaudevillian 1980 tap veteran note Skating Spectacular mini-serie- s Brideshead The Genesee Figure Skating dancer, Honi Coles, making dramatic debut as a Club and other skating stare per- his abroad by Granadai Television Mr. FixiL form to the theme of Around the would-b- e Ice. in association with (60 min.) World on (again, WNET-13- ). It was half fin- The Facts of Life 8:30 PM A few weeks back PBS pre- - ished when Britains actors Mrs. Garrett discovers that the it to a halt. But sented Big Blonde, which is strike brought of girls stole her birthday gift. scenes done not only critically on par with early reports Soap what the BBC has been able to last year in Venice gave raves HI John Beecher Special not iust but . King Orange do in England, 9:00 PM Anthony iniscent of what Hollywood Jamboree Parade Tonights proand in its days. Erin golden is hosted Gray managed by gram Waugh Theres more than a touch the novelist Evelyn ProducJoe Garagiola. (60 min.) of irony here. This is one of modeled on himself. Vegas resumed. been now has WM Arthur Fiedler: Call Me three Dorothy Parker works Maestro The life of Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler is examined. Portions of the annual Nutcracker Suite and the Bicentennial July 4th bash on the MacNeil-Lehr- o er fifl m O O 1980 te O O O O . o Concrete ranch-styl- e sliding secret glass hide-a-wa- y door-love- block, rs sitting on top of the highest lot in Los Angeles at the back end of Bel Air. I had a big swimming pool, fruit trees, tons of oleander, avocado trees, olive trees. I even had a pome- Santa Fe, where I played some new music with some new friends and, once in a while, some old music with some old friends. We formed a local band and played local bars, mostly in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. to Canada In 1974, I moved . to wrlte comedy in Edmonton Alberta, but it was just too cold to be funny up there So I came back to L.A. to write for my old buddies the Smothers return to TV on pothers in 1975. It was too tight to be funny there, except sometimes things would get kinda funny anyway. During the Bicentennial worked on writing my Blue-graSymphony and played it several times with my musical friends. Didnt make a dime, didnt give a damn. I also wrote a pilot for Jim Stafford that Burt Sugarman produced. It never got on the air, because it never got off the ground. In 1977, I did a Super Special for the CBC in Toronto. They were super, I wasnt. (I tried to tell them, but they up-be- and rode around in a 1947 I worked on Flexible-Flye- r. 10th Stone magazines Rolling anniversary special that fall, and I learned a lot about rock n roll from those guys. For example, did you know that rock n roll is kind of like corny and horny, and that the whole idea of it probably came from kids driving their . cars fast? en ss granate tree. I was above it all. I could see blue sky above me. In wouldnt listen.) I put another band together that summer and we played Colorado bars I didnt do much in 1978, but in the last couple of years things have gotten hot. I did a TV show in Halifax, wrote talk-shotalk for Dinah Shore in Hollywood, played concerts with the Kansas City, Louisville, New Orleans and Little Rock Symphonies, did an Earth Day gig in Denver, a horse show in Eugene, Ore., a Kerr-villBluegrass Festival in Texas, wrote a TV special for Steve Martin, two spew e, cials for the Smothers Brothers and now Im ... live its Sat- from New York urday Night! CROSSWORD see the sprawl of L.A. below it. Still, I wasnt having that much fun being rich and famous. I was raised on cheap thrills and how much beer can One day I was driving down the Ventura Freeway going to a meeting and suddenly I decided, What the heck? So j turned right onto the San Bieg0 Freeway and went back home t0 Oregon to go fishing, 1 never came back. I gave up y I fished for six months and slept every night by the run-tio- n ning waters. Then I moved to ASK ME ABOUT TVU Esplanade min.) are featured. (60 ill Masterpiece Theatre Testa- ment of Youth Conclusion. 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