Ebbie, the premises are similar, but Eddie Albert wasn't a "simple farmer", he was a big-city business guy who decided to chuck it all and go 'back to the land', to his wife's ongoing distress--making him an early prototype for the current (post-hippie) generation of what I call "the open-chequebook theory of homesteading."

Cluin, that's pretty much what I think too. The video coming out netwide right before wanna-be superstar's TV show goes on air--this is slick twenty-first century trash-PR. Probably trying to irritate her family too...

W-O