this film be not devoid of charm and also show a bit of warmth and but ultimately this effort be too vain and too strongly focussed on the lead . there be no doubt that mary tyler moore know what to do with all her screen time but she take too much of the limelight away from the rest of the cast . another problem be the overburdening of the script with cliche . the daughter who secretly drop out of college and an old woman find it difficult to get a good job ( and first end up with fairly demean work ) and the sleazy network executive with his executive toy who go for glitz over substance and the journalist who stick up for her belief and etc . there be nothing really wrong with any of these and i. e. they be all firmly root in reality and but in combination they be just too much and leave u with too much deja vu and too few surprise .