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TELE SSI ON By Ben Kubasik Bergen Mixes Business Acting Polly Bergen says she hasn't missed a step in her successful business career that began in the '60b not even when she returned to acting to play Rhoda Henry in of the 1983 ABC mini-series followed last month by and In between she starred with John Malkovich in Mr and Barry Bostwick in Kind of Tomorrow on NBC at 9 pm she'll be in Was Marked for with Stefanie Powers and Lloyd Bridges thrive on doing she says She is chairwoman of the Culinary Company an international catering business and she has designed and manufactured her own brands of cosmetics clothes shoes handbags and jewelry only way you can make it is to be ready to work really hard There's no easy way no shortcuts It takes unbelievable organization and total commitment both more valuable than extreme talent I love So why take time from business to act? realized when I came back for of it was the most fun I had in 15 Death Sentence for Ch 2 Court Shows Next fall WCBS 2 will drop two of its four half-hour court shows as it tries to find a total of 2Vs hours every day for the newly acquired Joan Rivers and On Monday and will be paired in the poorly viewed 9 am hour until they are dropped in the Tall Also Monday Ch 2 will air its two stronger court shows in the better-viewed hour before the early evening news: Court" moves to 4 pm from 9 am remains at 4:30 pm What happens when takes over at 4 pm remains to be seen Dm Brady Bunch Is reunited (for the most part) In Very Brady Sunday on CBS Bunches of Silliness TV REVIEW New Director for Ch 13 Production Arnold Labaton has been named director of WNET production center by George Miles Jr Ch 13 executive vice president Iabaton will head an operation that oversees 460 hours of new programing for PBS to be produced during the next 18 months as well as the local weeknights beginning in January and the recently introduced Week in Labaton a behind-the-scenes CBS News veteran from 1970 to 1974 was PBS' first director of operations and for four years before joining Ch 13 heiidisl WNYC-TV and radio that about to separate Cindy (Jennifer Runyon replacing Susan Olsen) is hiding the fact that really rather be skiing with her college friends Peter (Christopher Knight) is hiding the humiliating fact that his girlfriend has a better job than he does And the deepest shame: Bobby (Michael Lookinland) is hiding the fact that he dropped out of a graduate program in business administration to become a race-car driver Any boy who know the value of an MBA is a disgrace to the Brady name Now Greg (Barry Williams) is a son for Mike to be proud of so dull he has nothing to hide And just as well because concealment is futile in the Brady family For one thing none of them ever could keep a secret For another tells her the children are troubled A round of confessions is followed by a round of simple solutions just in time for the maid to wheel in a Christmas turkey the size of a Subaru But wait: Architect Mike must rush ofT to a construction accident and perform a heroic rescue an opportunity for Carol to lead the worried onlookers in Come All Ye On the lengthening list of TV-movie revivals Very Brady ranks right down there with Harlem Globetrotters on Was Marked for is not so memorable just a typical exercise in implausibility Wealthy widow Elena Forrester (Stefanie Powers) is a New York type with a slick magazine to run but she feels lonely and unfulfilled Instead of fixing Elena up with a nice widower in the Mike Brady mold her assistant (Debrah Far-entino) makes her feel worse by pointing out that she has better chance of being killed by a terrorist than The last time we heard that dubious datum was a month ago in another NBC movie My Daughters Definitely not a good sign Suddenly Elena finds herself assiduously courted by a young hunk (Hunt Block) with a Harvard MBA (that's the ticket) a promising career as a stockbroker and a purported preference for mature women Only after their precipitous marriage does Elena learn actually a fortune-hunting impostor aspiring to become a wealthy widower At this point viewers might reasonably expect her to confront him or leave him or cull the police or even confide in her longtime friend and financial adviser (Lloyd Bridges) Instead Elena keeps mum plays along and cheats death before finally catching a break through a late plot twist You'd think a successful magazine publisher would behave more intelligently even one who writes cover headlines like Sexy Are You? Twenty Penetrating II By Terry Kelleher THE CHOICE IN TV MOVIES nans dear tomorrow night at 9: vs lust and deception The titles alone should tell the tale Very Brady (CBS 2) is a holiday reunion of that big happy brood from Brady the saccharine sitcom that ran on ABC between 1969 and 1974 Was Marked for (NBC 4) is about a wealthy woman who falls for a younger man only to find he plans to take herlife and pocket her loot rush to judgment here however The old Brady home turns out to be a hotbed of deceit Very Brady also turns out to be notably dreadful But somehow you knew that right? Very Brady opens with the credits from the original series including the theme Bong that lives in infamy: a story Of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls Surely you recall those little head shots of the cast arranged on screen like the Hollywood Squares Well here the family members age before our eyes and we see that some of them have really changed Particularly little Cindy played by a different actress The Brady household of course was the product of a merger Widow Carol (Florence Henderson) and widower Mike (Robert Reed) got together and pooled offspring her three daughters and his (not Fred three sons Now the children are grown and on their own In fact remember early 1981 when Jan (Eve Plumb) and Marcia (Maureen McCormick) and their husbands all shared a house in that extremely short-lived ABC revival Brady In these trying times CBS programed would kill for a show like that After some preliminary high jinks Mike wants to surprise Carol with a holiday in Japan Carol wants to surprise Mike with a holiday in Greece and they both visit the travel agent at exactly the same time Mr and Mrs Brady decide like nothing more than to blow their vacation money on plane tickets for the kids kids-in-law and grandkids Bring all home to Southern California for Christmas Conveniently the old housekeeper (Ann Davis) breaks up with her husband and rqjoins the Bradys in time to pick up all the guests at the airport (one trip does it) and prepare the Christmas banquet But mendacity lurks beneath the festive surface husband is hiding the fact that he just got fired Jan and her husband are hiding the fact 4 I 4 4 4 i SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 1988 Part 1111 to Profile Roy Orbison When rock singer-composer Roy Orhison died lust week was preparing profile on him Tonight at 10 the show airs scenes of Orbison at a recording session in July Other pieces include a rot urn to Belle Glade Fla for a migrant worker update a look at cosmetic giant Estee lender's lutest model Paulina Porizkova and one-time Cutskill comedians who work Florida retirement communities at 7 pm profiles Bronx Judge Burton Rolierts and reports on I lume Shopping Network and its (1 billion gross sales this year at 9 o'clock looks at government efforts to aid American farmers Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel and Stephanie Hullyman who photographs the homeless at 9 am looks ut uk)ccLs of the US press Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour Peter Paul and Maty and penal system NBC's the tomorrow at 10:30 am sums up the Reagan presidency tomorrow at 1 1 am has what it calls the first TV interview with Marc Rich the commodities trader holed up in Switzerland Street Journal (WLIG 55 at 7:30 am WCBS 2 at 1 1 am) looks at shoplifters and how the toy industry is doing II 4.