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Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
...women's doubles seven times. She fooled around in the mixed doubles too, winning that title twice. Navratilova seems to have been a fixture at Wimbledon almost as long as radio commentator and former champ Fred Perry, whose last title came in 1936 and who is still broadcasting for BBC Radio...
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Middlemarch has such a tangle of subplots that viewers unfamiliar with the novel may find themselves in need of a trot to avoid getting lost. As usual with BBC productions, the atmospherics and costumes are spot on and the performances are consistently competent. Aubrey, a grave, wide-eyed newcomer, stands out as a luminous Dorothea...
...moment when he is truly convincing in his role comes right at the end, when we see Shaw delivering his final broadcast for the BBC, on television. Donnelly's Shaw, old and tremulous, unsure of his words, making a determined effort to keep aging limbs under control, is tremendously moving...