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Good Housekeeping is one of several periodicals related to homemaking.

Homemaking is a mainly American term for the management of a home, otherwise known as housework, housekeeping, or household management; it is the act of overseeing the organizational, financial, day-to-day operations of a house or estate, and the managing of other domestic concerns. This domestic consumption work^[1][2] creates goods and services within a household, such as meals, childcare, household repairs, or the manufacture of clothes and gifts. Common tasks include cleaning, cooking, and looking after children. A person in charge of the homemaking, who isn't employed outside the home, is in the U.S. and Canada often called a homemaker, a gender-neutral term for a housewife or a househusband. The term "homemaker", however, may also refer to a social worker who manages a household during the incapacity of the housewife or househusband.^[3]

Housework is not always a lifetime commitment; many, for economic or personal reasons, return to the workplace. In previous decades, there were many mandatory courses for the young to learn the skills of homemaking. In high school, courses included cooking, nutrition, home economics, family and consumer science (FACS), and food and cooking hygiene. This last one may underlie the tradition that a homemaker is portrayed wearing an apron. More recently, most of these courses have been abolished, and many youths in high school and college would be more likely to study child development and the management of children's behavior.

Household tools[link]

The method and function of housework are different in the industrial world and in other countries, with the balance of convenience, labor-saving devices and easier methods being in the industrial homemaker's favor. The reason for this is that mechanical invention has been applied extensively to different tasks of the home. Inventors have developed mechanical labor-saving devices not only for the shop and office, but also for the home. There are, on the market, thousands of household tools, devices and equipment for every domestic need. It only remains for the homemaker to choose between them.

Another reason for the great supply and demand for household labor savers in the industrial world is that the homemaker has to face the increasingly complex problem of scarce domestic help. With cheap labor, the need for the mechanical replacers of labor, or "mechanical servants," will not be keenly felt, however, the majority of homemakers perform their own household tasks. It is to this class of homemakers who are actively concerned in domestic work that the labor-saver and improved modern tool most appeal. The homemaker's time and effort are worth conserving by every means. Homemakers should, therefore, be eager to buy and use all the household tools that will save her strength and time and liberate her from household drudgery.

While some homemakers are "handy" with tools, the fact remains that most homemakers are unfamiliar with the different principles involved in mechanical tools and devices. The homemaker, however, is called to have knowledge of the principles of applied mechanics. Courses in school physics unfortunately leave a student with little practical knowledge that can be applied to domestic equipment. The gaining of knowledge concerning domestic tools may lead the homemaker to purchase good quality equipment, which may assist in saving time and labor.

Cooking[link]

Most modern-day houses contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. A kitchen is a room or part of a room used by the Homemaker for cooking and food preparation. In the West, a modern kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, an oven, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and kitchen cabinets. Many homemakers use a microwave oven, a dishwasher and other electric appliances. The main function of a kitchen is cooking or preparing food but it may also be used for dining and entertaining.

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure for producing safe and edible food. The process encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor, appearance, texture, or digestibility of food. Factors affecting the final outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.

The diversity of cooking worldwide is a reflection of the aesthetic, agricultural, economic, cultural, social and religious diversity throughout the nations, races, creeds and tribes across the globe. Applying heat to a food usually, though not always, chemically transforms it, thus changing its flavor, texture, consistency, appearance, and nutritional properties. Methods of cooking that involve the boiling of liquid in a receptacle have been practised at least since the 10th millennium BC, with the introduction of pottery.

Housekeeping[link]

Housekeeping by the homemaker is the care and control of property, ensuring its maintenance and proper use and appearance. A home is a place of residence.^[4] In a private home a maid or housekeeper might be employed to do the housekeeping. Housework is work done by the act of housekeeping. Some housekeeping is housecleaning and some housekeeping is home chores. Home chores are housework that needs to be done at regular intervals,^[5] Housekeeping includes the budget and control of expenditures, preparing meals and buying food, paying the heat bill, and cleaning the house.^[6] Outdoor housecleaning chores include removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows, sweeping doormats, cleaning the pool, putting away lawn furniture, and taking out the trash.^[7]

Housecleaning by the homemaker is the systematic process of making a home neat and clean. This may be applied more broadly that just an individual home, or as a metaphor for a similar "clean up" process applied elsewhere such as a procedural reform. In the process of housecleaning general cleaning activities are completed, such as disposing of rubbish, storing of belongings in regular places, cleaning dirty surfaces, dusting and vacuuming. The details of this are various and complicated enough that many books have been published on the subject. How-to sites on the internet have many articles on housecleaning. Tools include the vacuum cleaner, broom and mop. Supplies such as cleaning solutions and sponges are sold in grocery stores and elsewhere. Professional cleaners can be hired for less frequent or specialist tasks such as cleaning blinds, rugs, and sofas. Professional services are also offered for the basic tasks. Safety is a consideration because some cleaning products are toxic and some cleaning tasks are physically demanding. Green cleaning refers to cleaning without causing pollution. The history of housecleaning has links to the advancement of technology.

Laundry[link]

Laundry refers to the act of washing clothing and linens, the place where that washing is done, and/or that which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. Various chemicals may be used to increase the solvent power of water, such as the compounds in soaproot or yucca-root used by Native American tribes. Soap, a compound made from lye (from wood-ash) and fat, is an ancient and very common laundry aid. Modern washing machines typically use powdered or liquid laundry detergent in place of more traditional soap. Once clean, the clothes have been wrung out — twisted to remove most of the water. Then they were hung up on poles or clotheslines to air dry, or sometimes just spread out on clean grass.

Washing machines and dryers are now fixtures in homes around the world. In some parts of the world, including the USA, Canada, and Switzerland, apartment buildings and dormitories often have laundry rooms, where residents share washing machines and dryers. Usually the machines are set to run only when money is put in a coin slot. In other parts of the world, apartment buildings with laundry rooms are uncommon, and each apartment may have its own washing machine. Those without a machine at home or the use of a laundry room must either wash their clothes by hand or visit a commercial laundromat.

A clothes dryer is a household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing and other textiles, generally shortly after they are cleaned in a washing machine. Most dryers consist of a rotating drum called a tumbler through which heated air is circulated to evaporate the moisture from the load. The tumbler is rotated relatively slowly in order to maintain space between the articles in the load. In most cases, the tumbler is belt-driven by an induction motor. Using these machines may cause clothes to shrink, become less soft (due to loss of short soft fibers/ lint) and fade. For these reasons, as well as environmental concerns, many people use open air methods such as a clothes line and clotheshorse.

Laundry starch is used in the laundering of clothes. Starch was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to stiffen the wide collars and ruffs of fine linen which surrounded the necks of the well-to-do. During the 19th century and early 20th century, it was stylish to stiffen the collars and sleeves of men'sshirts and the ruffles of girls' petticoats by applying starch to them as the clean clothes were being ironed. Aside from the smooth, crisp edges it gave to clothing, it served practical purposes as well. Dirt and sweat from a person's neck and wrists would stick to the starch rather than to the fibers of the clothing, and would easily wash away along with the starch. After each laundering, the starch would be reapplied. Today the product is sold in aerosol cans for home use.

Maintenance[link]

Homemakers that follow predictive maintenance techniques determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach offers cost savings over routine or time-based maintenance, because tasks are performed only when warranted. Homemakers that follow preventive maintenance methods ensure that household equipment and the house are in satisfactory operating condition by providing for inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects.

Home maintenance[link]

Home maintenance involves the diagnosis and resolution of problems in a home, and is related to home maintenance to avoid such problems. Many types of maintenance are "Do it yourself" (DIY) projects. Maintenance is not necessarily the same as home improvement, although many improvements can result from repairs or maintenance. Often the costs of larger repairs will justify the alternative of investment in full-scale improvements. It may make just as much sense to upgrade a home system (with an improved one) as to repair it or incur ever-more-frequent and expensive maintenance for an inefficient, obsolete or dying system. For a DIY project, also useful is the established limits on time and money investments before a repair (or list of repairs) become overwhelming and discouraging, and less likely to ever be completed.

Lawn maintenance[link]

Homemakers that have a lawn responsibility adhere to seasonal lawn care practices, which vary to some extent depending on the climate zone and type of grass that is grown (whether cool season or warm season varieties). Various recognized method used by homemakers in lawn care are observed in any area. At spring or early summer, homemakers seed, sod, or sprig a yard when the ground is warmer. Summer lawn care by homemakers have lawn mower at high cutting for cool season grass, and lower cutting for warm season lawns. At the autumn time, lawns are mowed by homemakers at a lower height and thatch buildup that occurs in warm season grasses are removed.^[8] Homemakers do add sandy loam and apply fertilizer, containing some type of wetting agent. Cool season lawns are planted in the autumn with adequate rainfall. Lawn care in the winter is minimal, requiring only light feedings of organic material, such as green-waste compost, and minerals to encourage earthworms and beneficial microbes.

Management[link]

Household management by the homemaker is the act of overseeing the organizational, financial, and day-to-day operations of a house or estate. It differs from housekeeping, which consists of the physical maintenance and cleaning of a house.

De-cluttering[link]

Household de-cluttering involves removing unneeded or no longer necessary objects from a household or home. Objects can be given away to friends or charitable organizations, sold as second-hand, recycled or thrown away.

Extreme forms of an inability to de-clutter is a behavioral aspect of compulsive hoarding. On the other end, a society that relies overly much on generating and then disposing of waste is referred to as throw-away society.

Household purchasing[link]

Household purchasing refers to homemaker's attempt to acquire goods or services to accomplish the goals of the household. Though there are several households that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly between households. Typically the word “purchasing” is not used interchangeably with the word “procurement”, since procurement typically includes other concepts. Home makers decide the market goods that the household will buy, such as the groceries which have been bought at a grocer's.

Another important purchase handled by homemakers is the power source used for appliances. Home or other building heating may include boilers, furnaces, and water heaters. Compressed natural gas is used in rural homes without connections to piped-in public utility services, or with portable grills. However, due to being less economical than LPG, LPG (Propane) is the dominant source of rural gas for natural gas-powered ranges and/or ovens, natural gas-heated clothes dryers, heating/cooling and central heating. The amount of usages is determined by factors such as natural gas prices.

Servants[link]

Homemakers may manage household workers or "domestic servants".

Work strategies[link]

In sociology, household work strategy is the division of labour between members of a household, whether implicit or the result of explicit decision–making, with the alternatives weighed up in a simplified type of cost-benefit analysis.^[1][2] It is a plan for the relative deployment of household members' time between the three domains of employment:

1. in the market economy, including home-based self-employment second jobs, in order to obtain money to buy goods and services in the market;
2. domestic production work, such as cultivating a vegetable patch or raising chickens, purely to supply food to the household; and
3. domestic consumption work to provide goods and services directly within the household, such as cooking meals, child–care, household repairs, or the manufacture of clothes and gifts.

Household work strategies may vary over the life-cycle, as household members age, or with the economic environment; they may be imposed by one person or be decided collectively.^[9]

See also[link]

• Handyman
• Home economics
• Scientific management

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• Lopata, H. Z. (1994). Circles and settings: Role changes of American women. SUNY series in gender and society. Albany: State University of New York Press. "Homemaker" Page 137+.
• Arnold, E. (1993). Voices of American homemakers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Harvey, L. S. (1920). Food facts for the home-maker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin company.
• Frederick, C. (1919). Household engineering; Scientific management in the home. Chicago: American school of home economics.
• Snedden, D. (1919). Vocational homemaking education: Some problems and proposals. New York City: Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Kinne, H., & Cooley, A. M. (1914). Shelter and clothing: A textbook of the household arts. New York: Macmillan.

Further reading[link]

• Friendly Visiting Among the Poor By Mary Ellen Richmond. "The Homemaker", Page 64+.
• to Perform the 4 Key Responsibilities of a Career Professional Homemaker, eHow.
• The new face of homemakers; American Demographics, BNET.

Melanie Doane (born December 19, 1967, Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Juno Award winning Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and music educator who has had seven Top 40 singles in Canada.

Early Life and Theatre Beginnings[link]

Daughter of Chalmers Doane, an Order of Canada-winning music educator, Doane mastered many instruments at a young age, including the piano, bass, mandolin, guitar, violin, and ukulele. Following high school, Doane studied music at Dalhousie University with the intention of becoming a music teacher. Her career path changed after landing a roll in Neptune Theatre's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1986. She was cast regularly in productions at Neptune for two years before moving to Toronto in 1988. Over the next few years Doane played roles in various theatre productions, including Fire! and a brief stint on broadway in Mirvish's production of Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story.

Music career[link]

By 1993, Melanie began pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter, recording an EP titled Harvest Train which she released independently. The songs made their way to executives at Sony Music Canada, and shortly thereafter she signed with Sony and began working on her debut album, Shakespearean Fish. "Shakespearean Fish" was met with critical praise upon its 1996 release and helped Melanie garner a live following. Although it never reached critical masses through commercial radio, the album caught the attention of producer Rick Neigher in Los Angeles and Melanie began working with Rick on her sophomore release in 1997.

Adam's Rib was released through Sony Music Canada in 1998. It's title track became the album's first Top 40 hit at radio, followed by hit singles "Waiting For The Tide", "Goliath", and "Happy Homemaker". Melanie toured in support of the album for two years with artists like Jann Arden, Great Big Sea, The Philosopher Kings, and Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour. In 1999, she won the Juno Award for Best New Solo Artist. Adam's Rib was also released in the United States under the Columbia Records label in 1999, although like many Sony Music Canada artists released under Columbia Records, little promotional support was provided in the U.S. market.

Following promotion and touring for Adam's Rib, Doane left her contract with Sony Music Canada. Through a business partnership between her husband, theatre director and actor, Ted Dykstra, and actor, Gary Sinise, Doane began working on a new studio release with Rick Neigher in Los Angeles in 2000. Over the course of the next two years, Melanie gave birth to her first child and worked on several other projects in addition to her album, including writing with country group SHeDAISY, starring in the independent film Black Swan, and releasing a live album, Melvin Live through Maple Music Recordings, which featured Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies.

In 2003, Melanie released You Are What You Love through Dykstra and Sinise's Actorboy Records label and a distribution deal through Warner Music Canada. Its lead single "Still Desire You" charted Top 5 at Canadian radio stations and its accompanying music video reached #1 on MuchMoreMusic's viewer's choice countdown. During promotion for You Are What You Love, Melanie gave birth to her second child.

After taking some time off to raise her young family, Doane began working on a new album in 2007 that was inspired by her experiences with motherhood. Initially dubbed as a lullaby album, the resulting independent release A Thousand Nights had much wider appeal, mixing classic covers by artists like Fleetwood Mac, The Everly Brothers, and Leonard Cohen with originals by Doane and featuring acclaimed guests Jim Cuddy, Ron Sexsmith, Kathryn Rose, Emilie-Claire Barlow and Ted Dykstra. Released in 2008, "A Thousand Nights" was preceded by the lead single "Songbird" featuring Jim Cuddy, which became a Top 5 hit on the iTunes Country singles chart in Canada. Doane's original tracks "Every Little Thing" and "Chopin Ballade" each received prominent placements in hit shows "Being Erica" and "Flashpoint". In 2007, 2008, and 2010, Melanie was the featured entertainer on the Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train Tour. Each tour consisted of approximately 60 shows over the span of 3 weeks in various communities in the United States and Canada.

Melanie began working on a new studio album in 2009 with her brother and drummer Creighton Doane at his studio in Toronto. Throughout the recording process, early demos of tracks "Back To LA", "Make God Laugh", "From Your Lips to God's Ears", "Sweet on You", and "The Stupider I Am" were given away as free downloads via Melanie's official website. In the summer of 2010, "Sweet on You" reached #1 on the East Coast Countdown, a popular radio show in Atlantic Canada. In December 2010, "The Emerald City" was announced with a March 1, 2011 release date.

Television Placements[link]

Melanie's music has gained a loyal following through prominent placements in hit shows like "Brothers and Sisters", "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", "Dawson's Creek", "Party of Five", "Flashpoint", "That's Life", and "Being Erica".

Music Education Career[link]

In 2009-2010, Melanie began establishing a ukulele group at her kid's school in Toronto, much like the program established by her father in the 1960s. Since its introduction, the program has gained notoriety and Melanie now teaches classes of young children at a variety of local Toronto schools.

War Horse[link]

Shortly after the release of "The Emerald City" in 2011, Melanie was asked to audition for the role of "Song Woman" in Mirvish's Toronto production of the acclaimed play War Horse. Melanie was offered the role and began rehearsals for the production in December 2011. The play opens at the Princess of Wales Theatre in February 2012.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• 1993: Harvest Train (EP)
• 1996: Shakespearean Fish
• 1998: Adam's Rib
• 2001: Melvin Live
• 2003: You Are What You Love
• 2008: A Thousand Nights
• 2011: The Emerald City

Awards and Nominations[link]

• 1999 Won for Best New Solo Artist - Juno Awards
• 1999 Won for Most Charted Rock Artist for "Adam's Rib" - Canadian Radio Music Awards
• 1999 Nominated for Album of The Year for "Adam's Rib" - East Coast Music Awards
• 1999 Nominated for Best Pop/Rock Artist - East Coast Music Awards
• 1999 Nominated for Single of The Year for "Adam's Rib" - East Coast Music Awards
• 1999 Nominated for SOCAN Songwriter of The Year for "Adam's Rib" - East Coast Music Awards
• 1999 Nominated for Best New Artist - East Coast Music Awards
• 2003 Won for Best International Actress (for "Black Swan") - New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
• 2004 Nominated for Entertainer of The Year - East Coast Music Awards
• 2004 Nominated for Best Pop Recording for "You Are What You Love" - East Coast Music Awards
• 2004 Nominated for Best Female Artist - East Coast Music Awards

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Melanie Doane on Twitter
• Melanie Doane on Facebook
• Melanie Doane at the Internet Movie Database

Mary Tyler Moore
Moore in 1993
Born	(1936-12-29) December 29, 1936 (age 75) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Immaculate Heart High School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1958–present
Home town	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Television	The Mary Tyler Moore Show The Dick Van Dyke Show
Spouse	Dick Meeker (1955–1961) Grant Tinker (1962–1981) Robert Levine (1983–present)
Children	Richard Meeker (deceased)

Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–77), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as Laura Petrie (Dick Van Dyke's wife) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66). She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Moore has also been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly around the issues of animal rights and Diabetes mellitus type 1. Mary Tyler Moore was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the beginning of The Mary Tyler Moore Show,^[1] and also dealt with alcoholism,^[2] which was treated in the 1980s. In May 2011, Moore underwent elective brain surgery to remove a benign meningioma.^[3]

Early life[link]

Mary Tyler Moore was born in the Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, to George Tyler Moore, a clerk, and his wife Marjorie (Hackett). Her father was Roman Catholic and her mother a Catholic convert.^{[citation needed]} Mary was the eldest of three siblings.^[4] Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house which is now Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum.^[5] Moore's family moved to Los Angeles when she was eight years old. She attended Saint Rose of Lima, a Catholic school in Brooklyn, followed by St. Ambrose School (Los Angeles) and the Immaculate Heart High School (Los Feliz).^[6][7]

Career[link]

Television[link]

At the age of 17, Moore aspired to be a dancer. She started her career as "Happy Hotpoint", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet.^[8] She appeared in 39 TV commercials in five days, ultimately earning about $6,000 from her first job.^[9] Her time as "Happy Hotpoint" ended when it became difficult to conceal her pregnancy in the dancing elf costume.^[8] Moore modeled anonymously on the covers of a number of record albums and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running TV show, but was turned down. Much later, Thomas explained that "no daughter of mine could have that [little] nose."

Moore's first regular television role was as a mysterious and glamorous telephone receptionist on Richard Diamond, Private Detective. To add to the mystique, only her voice was heard and her shapely legs appeared on camera.^[10] About this time, she guest-starred on John Cassavetes's NBC detective series Johnny Staccato. In 1960, she guest starred in two episodes, "The O'Mara's Ladies" and "All The O'Mara's Horses", of the William Bendix-Doug McClure NBC western series, Overland Trail. Several months later, she appeared in the first episode, entitled "One Blonde Too Many", of NBC's one-season The Tab Hunter Show, a sitcom starring the former teen idol as a bachelor cartoonist. In 1961, Moore appeared in several big parts in movies and on television, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, Hawaiian Eye, Thriller and Lock-Up.

In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show, an acclaimed weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show, telling the cast from the outset that it would run no more than five years. The show was produced by Danny Thomas's company, and Thomas himself recommended her. He remembered Mary as "the girl with three names" whom he had turned down earlier.^[11] Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 (eleven years Van Dyke's junior), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally famous. When she won an Emmy^[12] award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie, she said, "I know this will never happen again." Mary Tyler Moore recently stated on The Rachael Ray Show that she was actually 23 years old when she first starred on the Dick Van Dyke Show. She had told producers that she was 24 because she heard that initially Dick Van Dyke had stated that she might be too young for the part.

In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman", Moore and husband Grant Tinker successfully pitched a sitcom centered on Moore to CBS. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series. The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple.^[11][13] After six years of ratings in the top 20,^[14] the show slipped to number #39 during its seventh season. Producers argued for its cancellation because of its falling ratings, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season. To the surprise of the entire cast including Mary Tyler Moore herself, it was announced that they would soon be filming their final episode. After the announcement, the series finished strongly and the final show was the most watched show during the week it aired. The 1977 season would go on to win an Emmy Award^[15] for Outstanding Comedy Series, to add to the awards it had won in 1975 and 1976. The series had become a touchpoint of the Women's Movement because it was one of the first to show, in a serious way, an independent working woman.

After a brief respite, Moore threw herself into a completely different genre. She attempted two unsuccessful series in a row: Mary, which featured David Letterman, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz and Dick Shawn in the supporting cast and lasted three episodes, which was re-tooled as The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, a backstage show within a show, with Mary portraying a TV star putting on a variety show.^[14] To arouse curiosity and nostalgic feelings, Dick Van Dyke appeared as her guest, but the program was canceled within three months. About this time, she also made a one-off musical/variety special for CBS, titled Mary's Incredible Dream,^[16] which featured John Ritter, among others. It did poorly in the ratings and, according to Moore, was never repeated and will likely never be aired again because of legal problems surrounding the show.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1985–86 season, she returned to CBS in a series titled Mary, which suffered from poor reviews, sagging ratings, and internal strife within the production crew. According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull the show, as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the producers.^[17] She also starred in the short-lived Annie McGuire in 1988.^[18] In the mid-1990s, she had a cameo and a guest starring role as herself on two episodes of Ellen. She subsequently also guest starred on Ellen DeGeneres's next TV show, The Ellen Show, in 2001. In 2004, Moore reunited with her Dick Van Dyke Show castmates for a reunion "episode" called The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited.^[19]

In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That '70s Show. Moore's scenes were shot on the same soundstage where The Mary Tyler Moore Show was filmed in the 1970s. Moore made a guest appearance on the season 2 premiere of Hot in Cleveland, which stars her old co-star Betty White.^[20] This marked the first time that White and Moore had worked together since The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended in 1977.^[21]

Theatre[link]

Moore the Academy Awards in 1988

Moore appeared in several Broadway plays. She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre (transferred to the Royale Theatre) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances. She was the star of a new musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's in December 1966, but the show, titled Holly Golightly, was a notorious flop that closed in previews before opening on Broadway. In reviews of performances in Philadelphia and Boston, critics "murdered" the play in which Moore claimed to be singing with bronchial pneumonia.^[22] During the 1980s, Moore and her production company produced five plays: Noises Off, The Octette Bridge Club, Joe Egg, Benefactors, and Safe Sex.^{[citation needed]} She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to "learn your lines or get out of my play".^[23] Moore had been using an earpiece on stage to feed her lines to the repeatedly rewritten play.^[24]

Movies[link]

Moore made her film debut in 1961's X-15. She subsequently appeared in a string of 1960s films (after signing an exclusive contract with Universal Pictures), including 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie with Julie Andrews and 1968's What's So Bad About Feeling Good? with George Peppard, and Don't Just Stand There!.

In 1969, she starred opposite Elvis Presley as a nun in Change of Habit. Moore's future television castmate Ed Asner also appeared in that film (as a cop). After that film's disappointing reviews and reception at the box office, Moore returned to television, and did not appear in another feature film for eleven years. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1980's Ordinary People. Other feature film credits include Just Between Friends and Flirting with Disaster.

She has appeared in a number of television movies, including Like Mother, Like Son, Run a Crooked Mile, Heartsounds, The Gin Game (based on the Broadway play; reuniting her with Dick Van Dyke), Mary and Rhoda, Finnegan Begin Again.^{[citation needed]} and Stolen Babies for which she won an Emmy Award in 1993.^[25]

Author[link]

Moore has written two memoirs. The first, After All, released in 1995, in which she acknowledged that she is a recovering alcoholic.^[26] The next, Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes, was released on April 1, 2009, and focuses on living with type 1 diabetes (St. Martin's Press; ISBN 0-312-37631-6).^[27]

Personal life[link]

Family[link]

In 1955, at age 18, she married Richard Carleton Meeker^[28] whom Mary described as "the boy next door," and within six weeks was pregnant with her only child, Richard, Jr. (born July 3, 1956). Coincidentally, he was known as "Richie," which was also the name of her TV son on The Dick Van Dyke Show.^[29] Meeker and Moore divorced in 1961.^[30] Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive (later chairman of NBC), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises,^[31] which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981.^[32] She married Dr. Robert Levine^[33] on November 23, 1983, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.^[34] They met when her mother was treated by him in New York City on a weekend housecall, after Moore and her mother returned from a visit to the Vatican where they had personal audience with Pope John Paul II.^[35] On October 14, 1980, at the age of 24,^[33] Mary's son Richie died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, accidentally shooting himself in the head while handling a sawed-off shotgun. The gun was later taken off the market because of its "hair trigger".^[36] Just before his death, Moore had secured a job for him in the CBS mailroom.

Charity work[link]

Mary Tyler Moore presents the JDRF's Hero's Award to U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, for his role in securing federal funding for type 1 diabetes research, 2003

In addition to her acting work, Moore is the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International.^[37] In this role, she has used her profile to help raise funds and raise awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1, which she has, almost losing her vision and at least one limb to the disease.

In 2007, in honor of Moore's dedication to the Foundation, JDRF created the "Forever Moore" research initiative which will support JDRF's Academic Research and Development and JDRF's Clinical Development Program. The program works on translating basic research advances into new treatments and technologies for those living with type 1 diabetes.^[38]

She also adopted a Golden Retriever puppy from Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue in Hudson, Massachusetts.^[39] She is an animal rights activist and promoted her cause on the Ellen DeGeneres sitcom Ellen.^[40] She has worked for animal rights for many years.^[41] She has worked with Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness about the cruelty of factory farming and to promote the compassionate treatment of farm animals.^[42]

She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City. Moore and friend Bernadette Peters work to make New York City a no-kill city and to promote adopting animals from shelters.^[43]

After her work with multiple cat adoption organizations, she herself has adopted over 132 cats that live with her at her ranch.

In honor of her father, George Tyler Moore, a life-long American Civil War enthusiast, in 1995 Moore donated funds to acquire a historic structure in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, for Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) to be used as a center for Civil War studies. The center, named the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War is housed in the historic Conrad Shindler house (ca. 1795), which is named in honor of her great-great-great-grandfather, who owned the structure from 1815–52.^[44] Moore also contributed to the renovation of the house used as headquarters during 1861–1862 by Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Use of the house had been offered to Jackson by its owner, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, commander of the 4th Virginia Infantry and a great-grandfather of Mary Tyler Moore.^[5][45]

Moore supports embryonic stem cell research. When President George W. Bush announced that he would veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, she said, "This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself."^[46]

Politics[link]

During the 1960s and 1970s, Moore could have been described more as a liberal or moderate liberal. However, during a 2011 interview with former castmate Ed Asner on the O'Reilly Factor, Asner stated that Moore "has become much more conservative of late." In fact, Bill O'Reilly admits that Moore had been a major viewer of his show, which describes how her political views had leaned towards the right in recent years.^[47] In a Parade article dated March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a "libertarian centrist", but does admit to frequently watching Fox News. "...when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me. I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly...If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have."^[48]

Honors[link]

MTM statue in downtown Minneapolis

In 1984, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.^[49] In May 2002, Moore was present as cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis to the television character she made famous on Mary Tyler Moore. The statue is in front of the Dayton's (now Macy's) department store, near the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall. It depicts the iconic moment in the show's opening credits where Moore tosses her tam o'shanter in the air, in a freeze-frame at the end of the montage.^[50] Moore was awarded the 2011 Screen Actors Guild's lifetime achievement award.^[51][52]

Moore was awarded seven Emmy Awards:

• Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or Special - 1993
• Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series - 1976
• Actress Of The Year-series - 1974
• Best Lead Actress In A Comedy Series - 1974
• Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actress - 1973
• Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actress - 1966
• Outstanding Continued Performance By An Actress - 1964
• Screen Actor's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award - 2012

Moore was awarded three Golden Globe Awards:

• Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - 1981
• Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - 1971
• Actress In A Television Series - 1965

MTM Enterprises[link]

Moore also founded MTM Enterprises, Inc. in 1969. This company produced The Mary Tyler Moore Show and several other television shows and films. It also included a record label, MTM Records.^[53] MTM Enterprises later produced popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis (both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues, and Newhart. It was later sold to Television South, an ITV Franchise holder during the 1980s.

The MTM logo was a short video sequence parodying the MGM logo, but with a cat mewing instead of a lion roaring.

Filmography[link]

Television[link] Club Oasis (1957), uncredited dancer Schlitz Playhouse Of The Stars (1959), Student # 1 in episode 'Ivy League' Steve Canyon (1959), Second Spanish girl (as Mary Moore) Richard Diamond, Private Detective Riverboat (1959), Brunette in carriage in 'A Night At Trappers Landing' 77 Sunset Strip (1959), Girl # 1 in 'The Kookie Caper' and Marie Drew in 'Thanks For Tomorrow' Bachelor Father (1960), guest star in 'Bentley and the Combo' Checkmate (TV series) (1960), secretary in 'Lady on the Brink' with Jane Wyman The Tab Hunter Show (1960), guest star in the first episode Stagecoach (1961) The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) Run a Crooked Mile The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) Rhoda (1974–1978) Phyllis (1976–1977) How To Survive the '70s (special) (1978) Mary (1978) First, You Cry (1978) The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979) Heartsounds (1984) Finnegan Begin Again (1985) Mary (1985–1986) Lincoln (1988) Annie McGuire (1988) The Last Best Year (1990) Thanksgiving Day (1990) Stolen Babies (1993) New York News (1995) Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996) Ellen (1996) Payback (1997) Good as Gold (2000) Mary and Rhoda (2000) Like Mother, Like Son (2001) The Ellen Show (2001) Miss Lettie and Me (2002) The Gin Game (2003) Blessings (2003) The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004) Snow Wonder (2005) That '70s Show (2005) Lipstick Jungle (2008) Oprah (May 19, 2008) Good Morning America (March 31, 2009) Hot in Cleveland (January 19, 2011) Film[link] Year Title Role Notes 1957 Operation Mad Ball Army nurse uncredited 1958 Once Upon a Horse... Dance hall girl uncredited 1961 X-15 Pamela Stewart 1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie Miss Dorothy Brown 1968 What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Liz 1968 Don't Just Stand There! Martine Randall 1969 Change of Habit Sister Michelle Gallagher Elvis Presley's last nonconcert movie 1980 Ordinary People Beth Jarrett Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role 1982 Six Weeks Charlotte Dreyfus 1986 Just Between Friends Holly Davis 1996 Flirting with Disaster Pearl Coplin Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress 1996 Blue Arrow, TheThe Blue Arrow Granny Rose voice 1997 Keys to Tulsa Cynthia Boudreau 1998 Reno Finds Her Mom Herself 2000 Labor Pains Esther Raymond 2002 Cheats Mrs. Stark 2009 Against The Current Mom References[link] ^ "Mary Tyler Moore tells how she took control of diabetes". 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Movies Appearances on C-SPAN Works by or about Mary Tyler Moore in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Mary Tyler Moore collected news and commentary at The New York Times Mary Tyler Moore on Charlie Rose The Museum of Broadcast Communications biography of Moore The Mary Tyler Moore Show Online "Remembering the Dick Van Dyke Show" (Mary Tyler Moore) Mary Tyler Moore Archive of American Television Interview Mary Tyler Moore at Emmys.com   Awards for Mary Tyler Moore v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1950–1975) Gertrude Berg (1950) Imogene Coca (1951) Betty White (1952) Eve Arden (1953) Lucille Ball (1955) Nanette Fabray (1956) Jane Wyatt (1957) Jane Wyatt (1959) Jane Wyatt (1960) Shirley Booth (1962) Shirley Booth (1963) Mary Tyler Moore (1964) Mary Tyler Moore (1966) Lucille Ball (1967) Lucille Ball (1968) Hope Lange (1969) Hope Lange (1970) Jean Stapleton (1971) Jean Stapleton (1972) Mary Tyler Moore (1973) Mary Tyler Moore (1974) Valerie Harper (1975) Complete list (1950–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1976–2000) Mary Tyler Moore (1976) Beatrice Arthur (1977) Jean Stapleton (1978) Ruth Gordon (1979) Cathryn Damon (1980) Isabel Sanford (1981) Carol Kane (1982) Shelley Long (1983) Jane Curtin (1984) Jane Curtin (1985) Betty White (1986) Rue McClanahan (1987) Beatrice Arthur (1988) Candice Bergen (1989) Candice Bergen (1990) Kirstie Alley (1991) Candice Bergen (1992) Roseanne Barr (1993) Candice Bergen (1994) Candice Bergen (1995) Helen Hunt (1996) Helen Hunt (1997) Helen Hunt (1998) Helen Hunt (1999) Patricia Heaton (2000) Complete list (1950–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025) v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie (1979–2000) Esther Rolle (1979) Mare Winningham (1980) Jane Alexander (1981) Penny Fuller (1982) Jean Simmons (1983) Roxana Zal (1984) Kim Stanley (1985) Colleen Dewhurst (1986) Piper Laurie (1987) Jane Seymour (1988) Colleen Dewhurst (1989) Eva Marie Saint (1990) Ruby Dee (1991) Amanda Plummer (1992) Mary Tyler Moore (1993) Cicely Tyson (1994) Judy Davis / Shirley Knight (1995) Greta Scacchi (1996) Diana Rigg (1997) Mare Winningham (1998) Anne Bancroft (1999) Vanessa Redgrave (2000) Complete list (1979–2000) (2001–2025) v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1969–1989) Carol Burnett/Julie Sommars (1969) Mary Tyler Moore (1970) Carol Burnett (1971) Jean Stapleton (1972) Cher/Jean Stapleton (1973) Valerie Harper (1974) Cloris Leachman (1975) Carol Burnett (1976) Carol Burnett (1977) Linda Lavin (1978) Linda Lavin (1979) Katherine Helmond (1980) Eileen Brennan (1981) Debbie Allen (1982) Joanna Cassidy (1983) Shelley Long (1984) Estelle Getty/Cybill Shepherd (1985) Cybill Shepherd (1986) Tracey Ullman (1987) Candice Bergen (1988) Jamie Lee Curtis (1989) Complete List (1969–1989) (1990–2009) (2010–2029) v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama (1961–1980) Geraldine Page (1961) Geraldine Page (1962) Leslie Caron (1963) Anne Bancroft (1964) Samantha Eggar (1965) Anouk Aimée (1966) Edith Evans (1967) Joanne Woodward (1968) Geneviève Bujold (1969) Ali MacGraw (1970) Jane Fonda (1971) Liv Ullmann (1972) Marsha Mason (1973) Gena Rowlands (1974) Louise Fletcher (1975) Faye Dunaway (1976) Jane Fonda (1977) Jane Fonda (1978) Sally Field (1979) Mary Tyler Moore (1980) Complete list (1943–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020) v t e Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2000–2019) 2000: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 2001: Edward Asner 2002: Clint Eastwood 2003: Karl Malden 2004: James Garner 2005: Shirley Temple 2006: Julie Andrews 2007: Charles Durning 2008: James Earl Jones 2009: Betty White 2010: Ernest Borgnine 2011: Mary Tyler Moore Complete list (1960–1979) (1980–1999) (2000–2019) Persondata Name Moore, Mary Tyler Alternative names Short description American actress, television producer Date of birth December 29, 1936 Place of birth Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Date of death Place of death

Paul Lester Overstreet (born March 17, 1955) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits. He has also written singles for several other country acts, including #1 hits for Randy Travis, Blake Shelton, and Keith Whitley, as well as hits for The Judds and Kenny Chesney.

Life and career[link]

Overstreet was born in Newton, Mississippi, the son of Mary Hatten and William Overstreet.^[2] Prior to his solo success, he was one third of the trio S-K-O, in which he recorded one studio album before departing and being replaced with Craig Bickhardt. In addition, Overstreet's sons Nash and Chord are also involved in the entertainment business. Nash is the lead guitarist for the pop band Hot Chelle Rae, while Chord is best known for his role of Sam Evans on the television program Glee.

Songwriter[link]

During his songwriting career, primarily in the Country genre, Overstreet has written or co-written 27 Top Ten songs. During this time, he has won two Grammy Awards and also won ACM and CMA Song of the Year Awards (1987 and 1988). Overstreet was named the BMI Songwriter of the Year five straight years, from 1987–1991, an achievement on music row that has not been achieved before or since.

He is well-known for co-writing the songs, "Love Can Build a Bridge" by the Judds (1990), and "Forever and Ever, Amen" by Randy Travis. Other well-known hits of recent years he is known for are "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" by Kenny Chesney and "Some Beach" by Blake Shelton, which was a Number One hit in 2004.

Paul Overstreet is best known for writing country songs such as "Forever and Ever, Amen"^[3] and "On the Other Hand", both of which were Number Ones for Randy Travis. He also co-wrote "When You Say Nothing at All" which was a Number One hit at the end of 1988 for Keith Whitley, and later a Top Five hit in 1995 for Alison Krauss, and revived later in 1999 by Ronan Keating of Boyzone.

In 1995, he also collaborated with Don Moen to perform and write a song with Don Moen called "God Is Good All the Time," from Don Moen's album Rivers of Joy.

Singer[link]

Overstreet was first signed as a singer in 1982. His debut single, "Beautiful Baby", peaked at #76 on the country charts that year, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. After co-writing Tanya Tucker's 1987 single "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" with Don Schlitz, Overstreet and fellow singer-songwriter Paul Davis became guest vocalists on the song, which became a Number One hit that year.

Also in 1987, Overstreet founded the trio S-K-O (also known as Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet) with Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, both former solo singers. S-K-O charted three singles with Overstreet as a member, including the Number One "Baby's Got a New Baby". After one album the trio was renamed S-K-B when Overstreet left and was replaced by Craig Bickhardt.

In 1988, Overstreet signed to RCA Records as a solo artist. His second solo album, Sowin' Love, accounted for five straight Top 10 hits on the country charts: "Love Helps Those", the title track, "All the Fun", "Seein' My Father in Me" and "Richest Man on Earth." His second album, 1990's Heroes, produced his only solo Number One in its lead-off single "Daddy's Come Around", which was followed by the Top Tens "Heroes" and "Ball and Chain". However, his chart success soon waned, with "If I Could Bottle This Up" peaking at #30 and "Billy Can't Read" falling short of Top 40. A third RCA album, Love Is Strong, produced the #22 "Me and My Baby" and two more singles which missed the charts. Also, the song "There But for the Grace of God Go I" won a Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year at the 24th GMA Dove Awards in 1993. Overstreet did not chart again after "We've Got to Keep on Meeting Like This" in 1996.

Solo discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• CMT: Paul Overstreet