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"I've always loved to perform, being basically shy." continued from page 21 number of times as David Grog. Still, the face is recognizable. He is cornered by autograph seekers in Los Angeles restaurants, women send him stacks of fan mail, and when he is introduced to the audience on the evenings the show is filmed, teen-age girls squeal as if he were David Cassidy. This winter he attended the premiere of "The Godfather, Part II," in Westwood as the guest of Mariana Hill, an old friend from acting class who has a part in the movie. "We show up I think she had an inkling of 4 what was coming and stepped on the sidewalk and was barraged by photographers, Groh recalls.

"It was like gun fire. Ten guys walking backward at once almost like it was choreographed. They each found a niche: Some were down low, some medium, some up high. And it was: "This way, David. Who's the They were asking me, and Mariana's been a movie actress for 10 years; I'd been on television three months.

That just shows the KODI KOOL Filter tongs, Filter Kings MILD MENTH CIGARETTES WILD MERINOL SUPER PINGS Warning: The Surgeon General Has That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your extraordinary impact this show has. Someone told me that more people watch in one night than have seen 'Hamlet' since Shakespeare wrote it." The next afternoon on the set, four hours before the filming, the cast is trying to learn last -minute changes in the script. "I hate learning lines," Groh admits. "It's boring. The whole weekend is spent learning lines.

And I hate it more when they change them. My mind is on the changes and not on the acting. I hate to make mistakes during the shooting, even tho they can go back and clear them up. And that's a fault, because it means part of me is on guard; I'm not completely loose. One of my teachers, Sandy Meisner, used to say: 'Act before you The sets for that week's program are spread out on the stage: Joe's New York Wrecking Co.

office (As Rhoda says: "He looks at New York as one big a restaurant where Rhoda will meet an old boy friend, and the Gerards' apartment, which the California set designers have made to look quite authentically New York except that there are no roaches and only one lock on the door. Valerie Harper is testing out one of the props a tray of cold cuts and Groh is asking a crew member to pre-pop a beer can so the explosion of foam won't distract the audience. As she always does in rehearsals, the script supervisor recites in her heavy accent the lines of Carlton, the dipso doorman, and Harper cracks up. "Please try not to speak Swedish," she giggles. Julie Kavner, who plays Rhoda's sister, Brenda, sort of schlumps across the stage, looking as if she were at a midafternoon slumber party.

is someone notes.) Directed by Bob Moore, whose New York stage credits include "'The Boys in the Band" and "My Fat Friend," Harper and Groh go over and over their lines, which include the weekly Carlton joke. Christmas he registered his pat- You've taken your last rough puff, once you come up to the smooth taste of extra coolness. Come up to KOL. 7 tern at the liquor Jim Brooks, the executive producer and co -creator of the show, lets loose his distinctive laugh, which always gets picked up on the soundtrack; it sounds like a whooping crane in heat. The costars rehearse a romantic scene on the couch an endless number of times.

"My sexiness dropped down a couple of hours ago," Harper says wearily. "Tonight I'll try to get it up -as they say." They move on to the "tag," the final scene. "Please zip me up, babe," she says. "Hey, how did you zip yourself when you were single?" he asks. "When you're single," she answers, "your arms are Groh goes back to his dressing-room trailer for another session of linestudying before the 7:30 shooting time.

Writer -Producer Lorenzo Music- -it is his voice that comes thru the intercom as Carlton tries to talk about the actor over dinner at the CBS commissary. "I don't know David Groh," he says. "He's a very mysterious person. But a very dedicated actor. Almost like a ballerina, ETO CEASE ECIGARE A 1 KOOL 14 1.

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