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Three MTV Girls... let Loose In New York City

Sometimes it's funny watching television with its adventures about the lives of young single girls in the big city. The Patty Duke Show, in the 1960s, was about identical cousins in Queens, New York. In the 1970s we had Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper looking for boyfriends while tackling creative careers, and in the 1980s, Pam Dawber is a California photographer with a young sister in My Sister Sam.

January 3, 1988
Anne Leighton

Three MTV Girls... let Loose In New York City

Anne Leighton

Sometimes it's funny watching television with its adventures about the lives of young single girls in the big city. The Patty Duke Show, in the 1960s, was about identical cousins in Queens, New York. In the 1970s we had Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper looking for boyfriends while tackling creative careers, and in the 1980s, Pam Dawber is a California photographer with a young sister in My Sister Sam.

Everybody knows that sit-coms are not about real people, but you should know that cable television has real people who are living a sit-com life in New York City, U.S.A. In fact, the three girl stars of MTV are from San Francisco, London, and Aspen, Colorado. Each are adapting to life in the big city in their own unique way.

Carolyne Heldman is a natural for rock and roll television work. The MTV camera loves to study her face with close-ups— her deep blue eyes and smooth voice whisper to you like she’s about to reveal the most intimate secret about Sting’s personal life. Her life at MTV came into being through luck and pluck.

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