If the man who won three Oscars in one night (for composing the music for ”The Way We Were” and ”The Sting”) and a Pulitzer Prize (for ”A Chorus Line”) can say, ”My basic disappointment is that I`m not taken seriously,” who can honestly feel successful? ”It`s not that I haven`t received recognition, but people think of this as the Sondheim era, the Andrew Lloyd Webber era,” says Marvin Hamlisch in ”Notes on Broadway: Conversations with the Great Songwriters.”
Even though she checked herself into the Betty Ford Center, Mary Tyler Moore wonders if she ever really was a drunk. In the January issue of McCall`s she says, ”The kind of alcoholism I suffered from . . . was a controlled alcoholism. . . It was the way in the evening I let go of all the control I`d exercised during the day. Nothing seedy. I always drank from a Baccarat glass, and there were always lovely hors d`oeuvres; but when that becomes part of your life it affects every part.”
Nearly all the stars of the old MTM show are still on TV. Gavin (Murray)
MacLeod is on ”Love Boat,” of course. Betty (Sue Ann) White is a smash on
”Golden Girls.” Mary herself is back on the air in ”Mary.” Now her old sidekick, Valerie (Rhoda) Harper, is, too, as a housewife and mother on
”Valerie,” which begins in March on NBC. She defines the half-hour sitcom as ”a bank job: You work 9 to 5 Monday through Friday, and you don`t have to wear makeup except on Friday, when we shoot.”
REPLAYS
”Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.” Marlo Thomas
”If you become a star, you don`t change, everyone else does.” Kirk Douglas
”If I had done everything I`m credited with, I`d be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.” Frank Sinatra
