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...SINGING DETECTIVE Dennis Potter's BBC serial, about a writer lacerated by memory and liberated by fantasy, was an instant cult classic on TV. Now it has barreled onto the big screen -- all 6 hr. 42 min. of singing, dancing, dazzling talking. In either format, a bloody masterpiece...
...mood suffused Potter's 1978 BBC serial, Pennies from Heaven (in which Bob Hoskins played the music salesman), his 1982 film, Brimstone and Treacle (with Sting as the satanic young man), and the current Track 29 (starring Theresa Russell as the American wife). In October his novel Blackeyes (about the plagiarizing novelist) was published, to acclaim, in the U.S., and last month the BBC aired his new series, Christabel, a domestic drama set in '40s Germany. Masterpiece Theatre will show the series in February...
...seriously in England, which means more seriously by the fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter between the writer's mother and her husband's best friend -- was sexually explicit, even by the liberal standards of British TV. "There was a debate about it at BBC, " Potter says, "but they decided to let it go uncut. And in fact the consequences of that particular adultery were illness and death and great misery. So it could hardly be held up as an invitation to promiscuity." In the end, Detective earned robust ratings and a British Academy...
Dennis Potter' s BBC serial about a writer lacerated by memory and fantasy, The Singing Detective, comes to a Manhattan movie house. On big screen or small, it' s a bloody masterpiece...
...BBC diction standards will not relax. For 56 years the carefully pronounced speech heard on the World Service has been the ultimate model for listeners learning English as a second language. The familiar opener for Radio Newsreel -- a brassy rendition of Imperial Echoes, with its resonance of a colonial past -- is gone and may not be missed. But news programs will still be introduced with a revered sound: the bouncy tune of the Irish song Lilliburlero and the muffled chimes...