mary tyler moore-special magazine

 i bought the special life magazine about the 'mary tyler moore show' this week at walgreen, honoring its 50th anniversary. i read it tonight and i like having it. this is one of many that i've bought over the years, as i like having things to read especially about history. what prompted me to get it this week was the passing of cloris leachman, who played phyllis the landlady on the show. there was plenty about the cast in it, but no surprise there was the most about mary. and not just this show, but many of her other roles. i liked mention of when she was mary todd in 'gore vidal's lincoln' as i have this DVD. and they covered the spin-offs, 'rhoda', 'phyllis', and 'lou grant'. as a big bob newhart fan i liked mention of the shows produced by her production company as well, including 'bob newhart show'. i do have some of the 'MTM' episodes on DVD, season 1 and 2 I recall. it had been in syndicated reruns for a while in this area as well. when i moved to the twin cities in 2004 i recall my dad saying to me, 'say hi to mary for me'. and on one of his visits we found the mary statue. he would say at the end of the opening segment, 'throws her hat up in the air in downtown minneapolis, 10 degrees below outside'. or was it 12? that does bring me to another thing i liked seeing in this magazine. dad's visit was for a twins baseball game, they were still at the metrodome then, in 2009. there is mention of mary visiting the twin cities in 2002. i think this was when she also threw out the first ball at a twins game. i saw footage of this when she died in 2017. another walgreen also has a special magazine about archie bunker, or 'all in the family', so i guess that is next on my list. 

it was a busy day at work, and i was pleased to get way more done with the special project for payroll. it was over 2,000 letters sent through the machine. although it was jamming a lot so some more had to be hand-stuffed. my  boss called and wanted samples of special handling from our larger files, i sent five. he wanted to see all four of the checks going to foreign countries, and i sent one example of checks that are sent inter-office. in the evening, after getting back from hy-vee in eagan, i went on a walk and found 37 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when leonard and howard went to a bar to pick up women, and it was raj who ended up hooking up at the end of the night. sheldon debates comic books with stuart as well. it was followed by the one where lucy meets amy and then breaks up with raj by text message. and leonard agrees to go to the north sea.