TIME CAPSULE/NOV. 16, 1976

AT THE MOVIES, Woody Allen (right) stars in The Front, a comic drama about Hollywood in the McCarthy era, written by Walter Bernstein and directed by Martin Ritt, both of whom had been blacklisted. In 1986, the Writers Guild would begin arranging for credit to be given to writers who had used pseudonyms or ''fronts'' on more than 70 movies. IN MUSIC, long before Celine Dion, Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has the No. 3 Billboard single with a ballad about a ship tragedy, ''The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'' AND IN THE NEWS, condemned killer Gary Gilmore attempts suicide with a barbiturate overdose. On Jan. 17, 1977, Gilmore would be the first prisoner executed in the U.S. in 10 years. In 1982, Norman Mailer's Pulitzer-winning book about him, The Executioner's Song, would become a TV movie.