People: Nov. 5, 1984

Big Bird, move over. Rose Bird has come, for one show at least, to children's TV. The chief justice of California's Supreme Court makes her television acting debut next week on Richard Pryor's Pryor's Place. Well, she didn't have to act too much. Justice Bird, 47, plays—what else?—a judge in a segment that deals with the fears of children whose parents are divorcing. "I think any program that helps make the courts less frightening to children whose parents are getting a divorce is worthwhile," said Bird. She was invited to do the show by...

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