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...Outback was considered by some to be the Australian Gone With the Wind, and for the filmed version, yet another fair Englishwoman walked off with the lead. Rachel Ward, 24 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), is cast as Meggie in The Thorn Birds, a nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major...
...evidence, he cited ABC's coverage of the region since the murder of Sean Toolan, a part-time radio reporter for ABC in Beirut. He was killed shortly after ABC-TV aired a special report by Correspondent Geraldo Rivera that was sharply critical of Palestinian terrorism. Said Chafets: "ABC, from the time that [Toolan's death] happened, in my view, began a policy which I would describe as cowardly." The recent 20/20 segment "Under the Israeli Thumb" by Correspondent Tom Jarriel, Chafets said, was "one of the most malicious, distorted and one-sided programs about Israel shown...
Hoping to encourage Soviet cooperation in Geneva, U.S. officials greeted Brezhnev's proposal in Bonn politely. "They've got an interest and a stake in legitimate negotiations, and we're going to pursue that as far as we can," Reagan said in an interview with ABC-TV. Said Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "Our message is going through." But, speaking privately, U.S. diplomats saw no great change in the Soviet approach...
...Herman Wouk, 66, presiding over a Truman Capote lookalike contest? No, just posing with some extras for the ABC-TV mini-series of his sprawling novel The Winds of War, to be aired next year. When the author dropped by during location shooting in Siena, Italy, he was written in for a nonspeaking walk-on as an archbishop. Director Dan Curtis figured there was no point in making it all play and no Wouk...
...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Margaret Bourke-White were as alike as an Instamatic and a Hasselblad. But as subjects in two upcoming movies, both are being portrayed by camera-sly actresses who admire their subjects: Jaclyn Smith, 33, and Candice Bergen, 35. In Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a three-hour ABC-TV movie to be aired in the fall, Smith has doffed her Charlie's Angels halo for the bouffant hair and pillbox hats the 31st First Lady helped popularize. Voice lessons and video tapes of Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl...