Svelte at 57, Mary Tyler Moore shares her shapely secrets in her new video series, Everywoman's Workout. It's a perfect fit for Moore, who has charmed the pants off TV viewers since she played the lithe, slacks-wearing Laura Petrie. "I wanted to portray a housewife wearing clothing that I wore in my kitchen," says Moore of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66). "The sponsors became worried that women might see it as avant-garde. [Creator] Carl Reiner came to my defense and said, 'Women today are not wearing full-skirted frocks with high heels as they vacuum the rug.' " The sponsors agreed to let Laura wear pants in one scene per show. "We went along with that for half a season," says Moore, "then we gave them the raspberry and did what we wanted to do."
THE GODDESS MUST BE CRAZY
Roseanne has blasted both NBC's and Fox-TV's upcoming biopics of her life. But she is particularly miffed by the casting of Dream On's Denny Dillon in Fox's Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography (Oct. 11). "Roseanne's mostly upset because I'm vertically challenged," says Dillon, 40ish, whose 5' frame has weathered the scorn. (Roseanne is 5'4".) "She has said worse things about Tom Arnold and her ex-husband [Bill Pentland]. I think I got off easy." Dillon, in fact, hasn't given up on winning the diva over. "Hopefully, when she sees it, she'll like it. I'm trying to give it as much integrity and heart and compassion as I can." If not, says Dillon, "I'm a certified scuba diver. I can always go underwater."
A MAN OF CONVICTION
These days, Tim Robbins can kick back and enjoy the widespread praise he has received for his costarring role (with Morgan Freeman) in The Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King's story about a 20-year friendship between two convicts. But one day of preparation felt more like a life sentence to Robbins. The actor did some time in solitary confinement at a prison near the Ohio State Reformatory, which doubled as Maine's fictitious Shawshank State Prison. "I was taken to jail in full body shackles and prisoner gear," says Robbins, 35. "None of the prisoners recognized me. I combed my hair in front of my eyes so I wouldn't get treated like a movie star or something." And he wasn't. "The scary thing is that all the prisoners kept yelling out, 'What did you do?' " he says. "I didn't lie and say I knocked off a bank. I just didn't talk at all. This made the guys sort of mad. Luckily there wasn't a riot."
AULD LANG SIGNS?
With Beverly Hills, 90210 in its fifth season and the stars' original commitments due to expire in 1995, will the cast—minus, of course, the already departed Shannen Doherty—be breaking up? "This could be our last year," says Tori Spelling, 21, who plays earnest Donna. "I'd go on if the show does. This will be a good year for Donna. She'll get some new romances—note the plural! But she'll probably stay a virgin. It's great to have a model like her on TV to counteract the idea that you can't be cool unless you sleep with your boyfriend. Donna makes a nice contrast with some—with all—of the other characters." As for Spelling's real-life relationship, she has no immediate plans to wed boyfriend Nick Savalas (Telly's son). "I always thought I'd be married at 23 and a mother at 25," says Spelling. "Maybe that's the way it'll work out. But I want to be really, really ready, because I plan on being married just once."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
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