This has been some year for me. An heiress kidnap victim turns bank robber, a Manson girl tries to shoot the President, and America's sort-of TV sweetheart gets busted for cocaine the week after she was Newsweek's cover girl. It's enough to send me back to reading newspapers, to say nothing of what a year for women. (But it's not enough to get me watching that dreadful TV disaster news. The city in which I live fortunately airs Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman at 11:00, not that I need an excuse not to watch Geraldo Rivera. Or doesn't he do news anymore?)

No, I am not vvriting about Mary Hartman, the show. Never in the history of media has so much been written about so little with perhaps the exception of the album Sgt. Pepper. Actually, I watch the show; I even enjoy it, but that's not my point. For years I've thought Louise Lasser to be a very funny,sexy lady. I hope that she'll pull through this ordeal (the best and the stardom and the schedule) okay.