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...nine months ago, Holocaust has been shown in eleven countries, including Israel, Britain and Japan. But the program posed a ticklish dilemma for television executives of publicly financed television stations in West Germany, where many people would rather bury the Nazi past Both ARD and ZDF, the two national networks, declined to purchase the show They cited reports from West German correspondents in the U.S. that Holocaust which focuses on the suffering of a Jewish family and the rise of a young SS officer, verged "dangerously close to soap opera." Eventually WDR, largest of West Germany's regional channels...
From the beginning, broadcasters feared that the series would be viewed as either too banal to be truly educational, or too anti-German to be effective. To counterbalance some of Holocaust's technical errors, ARD screened before the first installment a 90-minute documentary called Endlösung (final solution), using actual films of Hitler's rise and the grim reality of the death camps Stations broadcasting Holocaust set up telephone lines over which viewers could call in to panels of experts and survivors of Nazi persecution...
...piece about Watergate literature, for instance, he speaks of "the firm jaw and the empty sentence. Any good comic writer can do you a Sam Ervin, but How ard Baker is a work of art." Examining the predicament of fiction writers in an age when all psychological twitches are resentlessly understood, he observes: "Since jealousy is now curable, like TB, we can't have people dying of it any more. A few rap sessions, some fearless touch ing, and a new sense of self-worth would have Othello and lago and Hamlet and Juliet back on their feet...
...villain, meanwhile, has problems of his own-an oil-company executive (George Grizzard) wants to plunder the cattle fields for crude. It is not difficult to guess what follows. Like every other so-called modern western, this one features a trusty old ranch hand (nicely played by Rich ard Farnsworth) who dies to symbolize the passing of the Old West. Like every old-fashioned western, Horseman slowly but surely sends its taciturn heroine into the macho hero's arms. Clark's climax, a plain old Shootout, is surprising only because it is capped by an optimistic denouement that...
...Thomas) Cullen Davis, 44, one of the richest men in Texas, listened without expression as the tapes of that conversation were played in court last week in Fort Worth, Texas. At his side sat Rich ard ("Racehorse") Haynes, chief of the defense team that has so far cost Davis $4 million in more than two years of legal proceedings arising from his pending divorce and the shooting of his estranged wife, her lover, her daughter and a guest. Testifying against Davis was his former employee, burly, baby-faced David McCrory, the man he had allegedly...