Week of Nov 27-30, 1980
Almost 400 days - The Muslim militants who have held the American hostages in
Iran say they have handed over the captives to the Iranian government and no
longer have anything to do with them.
The Soviet Union sends three cosmonauts into space; six weeks after tow others
completed the longest space race in history.
Despite rejections in advance from three possible Cabinet appointees, President-
elect Ronald Reagan says he expects no big problems inputting together a high-
quality group of Cabinet members. Recently, Reagan said former Treasury
Secretary William Simon had told him he was not interested in taking a new
Cabinet position.
A woman who has lived on the west side of Manhattan
for two hears has been identified as
Bernardine Dohrn
,
the fugitive leader of the radical Weather Underground.
A woman in a black Lincoln Continental plows through
sidewalk crowds in Reno, hitting 32 and killing 5.
Entertainment news -
Passing - Actress Rachel Roberts (53).
Music news
- Paul McCartney has embarked on his first
full-length carton project. His movie will include “Rupert the Bear,” a British comic
strip character making his screen debut. McCartney wrote the story line, plus 11
songs for the movie.
John Lennon
, now out and about after a hiatus has
some interesting things to say. One - that he is hurt he
was left out of the autobiography of George Harrison. He
also has this interesting observation about his
songwriting partner Paul McCartney - “I thought
subconsciously Paul tried to destroy my greatest songs.
We would spend hours doing little, detailed cleaning up
on Paul’s songs, but when it came to mine… somehow
an atmosphere of looseness and experimentation would
come up. I was hurt… Paul will deny it.’
Week of Nov 27-30, 1980
Television news
- Thanksgiving parades - Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day parade - Ed McMahon hosts. CBS
All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade”
- William
Conrad
hosts parade highlights from New York,
Philadelphia, Toronto, Detroit and Hawaii.
Lee Majors gets busted for killing a buck out of season,
He was hunting quail in Oklahoma when he bagged the
buck, but someone turned him in.
Thursday night television -
CBS - The Waltons, Knots Landing, CBS Special - Linda in Wonderland
NBC - Movie (The Sound of Music)
ABC - Mork & Mindy, Bosom Buddies (Debut), Barney Miller, It’s a Living, 20/20
PBS - Cosmos
Mork and Mindy - Mork challenges a champion roller skater to a race down a
treacherous mountain.
Debut - Bosom Buddies (
see ad)
- Comedy about two young advertising men
who residents in an all-women hotel and must keep their gender a secret. Stars
Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari.
Special - Linda in Wonderland - Musical-variety starring
Linda
Lavin.
Guests - Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron
Liebman.
At the movies -
Private Benjamin
Song of the South
Ordinary People
It’s My Turn
My Bodyguard
Fade to Black
Airplane
Kramer Vs Kramer
