Too busy to say yes?

Press, 14 March 1985, Page 11

Too busy to say yes?

It has been said that journalism is a way of life but it could be that the “Trib’s” young female journalist, Billie Newman, is taking the saying a bit too literally.

In tonight’s episode of “Lou Grant” she is so busy on a story that there is doubt whether she can take time to accept a marriage proposal.

Meanwhile, a crisis with the paper’s computer system lands Lou in trouble with his youngest daughter, who resents the demands his job makes on his time. Linda Kelsey, who plays Billie Newman, began her acting career with the Guthrie Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

She then went to Los Angeles, where she got guest-starring roles on such television series as “Emergency,” “The Rookies,” “Harry O,” “The Rockford Files,” “Barnaby Jones,” “Doc” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She co-starred on the television specials, “Eleanor and Franklin,” “Something For Joey” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” and was featured in the motion picture, “The Midnight Man.” She was nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes in 1978 and 1979 for her role in “Lou Grant.”

During the 1981 hiatus of “Lou Grant,” Linda Kelsey toured India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Hong Kong on behalf of INFACT, the infants’ formula action coalition. She has also been active in the Coalition for Battered Wives.