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1 pkg.
2 cups
1
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skim milk
11-ounce can mandarin
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1 tbsp.
toasted almonds,
slivered
sherry
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make your own pudding using skim milk. Cool.
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sherry. Serve in individual glass dishes garnished with the toasted
slivered nuts.
Yield: 6 Servings
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Mandarin Orange Pudding
Nutritional Analysis per Serving
127
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1.3 g.
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Protein
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Polyunsaturated Fat
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T
hese days, when tele-
vision actors are cast
in secret agent roles,
they often discover that go-
ing under cover lands them
in bed more often than in
back alleys.
Sleuths seem more prone
to four- posters than six-
shooters; cops cop romantic
relationships with suspects
as part of their Miranda
rights.
Peggy Lipton calls to mind
a more innocent time, when
a bunch of wayward kids
wound up solving cases that
seem ingenuous by today's
TV standards. In memory,
"The Mod Squad" seems
more modest than
mischievous.
The hit hippie cop series of
the '60s set television sets on
their rabbit ears. For five
seasons, begining in 1968,
audiences tuned in to the
drop-out, turn-on tactics of a
trio of mod undercover kids
who cornered the market on
crimes and misdemeanors.
And now, one of those
"kids," Peggy Lipton, is
talking of her past days as a
young fictional hip and hot
cop. Peggy Lipton is now for-
tysomething.
Sometimes, truth is
stranger than fiction.
Twenty-two years after she
first scored as Julie in "Mod
Squad," modern-day Peggy
Lipton is aligning with an-
other squad of stars, this one
also drawing considerable
media attention.
Lipton is a member of the
interesting ensemble of actors
taking up residence in ABC-
TV's "Twin Peaks," a nine-
hour murder/melodrama set
in a small Pacific Northwest
town terrorized by an
unusual killing.
With tales of double-
timing and timeless
doubletakes, "Twin Peaks"
is a two-fisted murder
mystery with a twist.
Nothing is as it appears.
Is "Twin Peaks" a
perverse "Peyton Place,"
turned topsy-turvy by a
town's tawdry turn of
events? "I view it like every
town, every city," Lipton
says.
It is probably no long shot
Michael Elkin is the enter-
tainment editor of the Jewish
Exponent in Philadelphia.
to assume that that view in-
cludes Long Island, Lipton's
home base, where she grew
up in a Reform Jewish home
as daughter of an attorney
dad and artist mom. Lipton
has talked about Long
Island before, dismissing it,
as she informed one
reporter, as a "small, closed,
status-oriented town."
Certainly, her own status
has changed since. "I am a
survivor," says Peggy Lip-
ton, "like Norma is a sur-
vivor."
Norma is the character she
plays, described by the net-
work as "a strong woman,
though life has dealt her an
unfair hand."
Life seems to have handed
Lipton a good deal. But ap-
pearances, as is the case
with the characters in "Twin
Peaks," can be deceiving.
Lipton talks about the
lifelong struggle she has had
with a stutter. "I still have
it," she says, though it is
unnoticeable to an observer.
"I have taken a lot of speech
lessons; it's an ongoing pro-
cess."
Not one that haunts or
bothers her, however. Lipton
is matter-of- fact about the
facts of her life. She is a
woman who, by her own
words, works toward the
future: "I never look back."
If she did, she could
ruminate over a longtime
marriage to composer Quin-
cy Jones that soured several
years ago. She could wonder
about the years she lost in
the business to raise her two
children.
"If it meant exchanging
the time I had with my chil-
dren for success (in show
business), I wouldn't. I have
no regrets," Lipton says
Working again is work-
ing out for Lipton, eager to
continue her duties as Nor-
ma, owner of the "Twin
Peaks" Double R Diner, who
dishes out town gossip with
her pies.
"It's hard after such a long
time off," Lipton says of
rebuilding her career. But
she has garnered strength
from her spirituality.
Judaism, she says, has
meant so much to her in
restructuring the bridge to
happiness. It always meant
something important to her
family, and it offers
sustenance now. "I need it in
my life," she says. "I owe
quite a lot to God."
Last year, after 12 years
away from the tube, Lipton
alighted in an ABC tele-
movie, "Addicted to His
Love." Today, she enjoys be-
ing part of the "Twin Peaks"
cast, which includes Kyle
MacLachlan, Michael On-
tkean, Piper Laurie and
Richard Beymer.
And when she gets a break
from production, she can
always relax with a rerun of
"Mod Squad," still seen in
syndication throughout the
country.
Her oldest daughter, says
Lipton, has tuned into the
show and seen her mom.
"But it doesn't interest her;
she doesn't want to watch
it." And what does her
daughter say about her oh-
so-hip "Mod Squad" mom of
the '60s? "She says, 'I can't
believe those bell-bottom
pants!' "
JET Reads
`Soulful Scream'
The May Festival of staged
readings, sponsored by the
Jewish Ensemble Theatre,
will present The Soulful
Scream of a Native Son by
Ned Eisenberg as its third of-
fering in the month-long
series. All Festival plays are
new works chosen by JET's
play reading committee bas-
ed on the group's concept of
providing a platform for new
"voices" and material.
The readings are scheduled
to begin at 8 p.m. Immediate-
ly following each performance
there will be an open discus-
sion among the audience, ac-
tors and the director.
Whenever possible the
playwright will be present to
participate in this dialogue.
Performances are May 16 at
the Jimmy Prentis Morris
building and May 17 in the
Aaron DeRoy Theatre of the
Maple/Drake building.
Soulful Scream of a Native
Son is set in Brooklyn, N.Y. in
1967. It is a juxtaposition of
the Jewish and Black
cultures.
The play's main character
is a rebellious Jewish
teenager caught in a racial
identity crisis as he struggles
against his traditional
middle-class upbringing. His
frustration mounts as he tries
desperately to fit into the
world of his black peers. In-
capable of accepting what he
is, he is also unable to become
what he wants. The resulting
confusion is part of the hurt
and futile pain of the tur-
bulent 60s in America.
There is a charge. For infor-
mation, call the JET office,
788-2900.